Robert Green wrote:
"BobR" wrote in message
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On Nov 12, 12:11 pm, "Robert Green"
wrote:
"Bob F" wrote:

It's so sad that so few people seem to remember what working
conditions were like 100 years ago before unions. People were locked
into dangerous workplaces with the exits barred and got burned alive
(Triangle Shirtwaist Fire) when a fire started. Regulations and
unions didn't arise in a vacuum, they arose because of the constant
abuses of businessmen who wouldn't think twice about risking a
worker's health to make a dollar. That process is playing out now in
China, and will be happening all across the third world as people
become better educated. The fact that unions arise even in the midst
of socialist dictatorships tells me they are a totally natural
phenomenon, and a largely unstoppable one.

But that was a hundred years ago. Much of the things the unions fought for
are now carved in the marble of federal and state law. Giant government
bureaucracies have been constructed to handle the issues unions demanded:
The Department of Labor, OSHA, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and more.

Unions have outlived their usefulness in these areas and should not be
currently continued based solely on their successes of the past.