First there were serfs, exploited and suppressed with force by royalty. Then came industrialization and big business tycoons joining royalty in preying on the masses. Part of what created America was an escape from that. In the beginning America was a nation of self-employed shop-keepers, businessmen and farmers. Gradually big business invaded and increasingly employed and exploited the masses in much the same way. Then came unions, which may have started out earnest enough, but ended up just being another way to prey on the masses, and terrorizing them to boot. No, that isn't an exaggeration, why do workers make 20 to 30 thousand dollars a year while their "servants" make 200 to 300 thousand dollars a year? Have you ever tried to work in a sawmill, school, or factory ruled by unions and not belong to the union ? I have. I'm lucky to still be alive.

Union leadership should be made up of union workers, accept pay equal to the average salaries of their constituents, rotate officers every two years, strive for salaries connected to profits, and enough stocks in huge corporations to enable them to control administrative costs and salaries. They aren't so they don't. Today's union leaders tend to act like, sound like, and employ the same tactics as Communist dictators. End of tirade.