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A hundred years ago when giant corporations and monopolies used up human lives as a cost of doing business, the balance of power was tilted heavily toward the owner-management part of the equasion.
As Unions gained power their purpose of protecting workers from the abuse of owners-managers, evolved into their own power to destroy whole corporations by making them incapable of competing in an increasingly world wide economy.
Both situations have their own consequences. One destroys people as a cost fo doing business. The other destroys the business as a cost of protecting and compensating labor.
The real problem here is for labor and management to adopt an adversarial relationship much in the same way as our political system has now evolved into a very adversarial relationship which offers no grounds for compromise.
Sadly this whole "my way or the highway" position may eventually destroy the US in much the same way it has destroyed our steel industry, which, if you believe the political ads on TV would be the exclusive responsibility of the Republican candidate.
I hope we are not as short sighted as we are adversarial.
regards
Mech
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