What the hell?
You're worng, Jimmi.
Unions still protect the people, haven't you ever seen "Roger and Me"?
Ok-example-there are no laws that say "The company can't fire you if your name appears on a petition against something the company is doing" but if that employee is opperating under a collective barganing agreement (contract), there will almost always be a clause saying almost exactly that. You've obviously never held a union job (or at least a job with a very good union) I agree-unions do affect the economy in a sometimes negative way, but try to get a contract between a company and it's employees without a union. They workers will get fucked. You just don't fucking get it Jimmi, you don't see the small picture. The small picture is this-the lives of the people rely on the protection they get from unions-if you A) don't have a union job -or- B) didn't grow up in a house where the money came from a union job, YOU HAVEN'T GOT A FUCKING LEG TO STAND ON IN THIS ARGUMENT. How about this-go down, get a job as a forklift driver for, say, oak harbor freight. They aren't union, I recall.....
Then, get the same job for, say, Supervalu, who is union, and tell me which of those two jobs you could support a family off of-or are you to holier-than-thou republican to see things as a blue-coller person trying to PUT HIS FUCKING KIDS THROUGH COLLEGE, as you pointed out. UNTIL YOU'VE LIVED LIFE AT THIS END OF THE SPECTRUM, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

No offense meant, and I still respect you, there just holds the small fact that you are wrong about this.