This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.