Union Breakers to Union Makers

Over at Townhall, Mike Glover has break down on how far certain canidates are in the union pockets.

There once was time when the unions were fought tooth and nail by companys. A lot of blood was spilled by both sides. Over time the unions pushed in to the government laws which protected their views and thus made themselves useless. Now unions are there to protect the incomptent. I am sure there are some instances where the union is still the campion of the weak but those situations are fewer and fewer.

Richardson said he would set concrete goals for increasing union membership from its current 12 percent of the work force, pushing for a level as high as 20 percent.
"My secretary of Labor would be a union member," he said. "All of those union-busting attorneys would be gone."

Union-busting attorneys? Union membership is not declining because of a busting movement, it declining because people don't want to join. The only way to get membership up is force people to join.


Joe Biden is clueless on this one too.

Biden called for easing restrictions on union organizing and noted the decline in membership from the 1950s, when roughly one in four workers belonged to a union.

,but everyone agees with him.

However, they contended that the biggest problem facing unions was the steady drop in membership, and all vowed to make it easier for unions to organize.

This implies that the restrictions are new, but things haven't changed in that time. What he is really saying is that the unions can't grow under the current rules so we need to help them cheat. The drop in membership is directly tied to the services offer by the unions and more people are saying no thanks.