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To: clear who wrote (49395)	7/26/2013 2:43:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

The problem is they were destined to become very powerful and as you indicated, destructive. So, in that sense, from the inception they were a bad thing. But in the early days of Mother Jones, one can argue that Labor needed some help (by the time of her death, of course, Mother Jones was acting like the union bosses we've come to know, even charged with and sentenced to prison for murder, before she was released under somewhat mysterious circumstances, IIRC). Your point is taken -- there is really no way the unions could have existed without the devastating effect on the economy. When my wife was in her late 20s, she managed a union crew in a plant. To this day, she likens it to babysitting. Adults acting like children. She hated that job. Union workers seem to have a sense of entitlement that really doesn't always coincide with their skills or abilities. I think autoworkers are an excellent example -- these people really are scarcely needed at this point anyway, and few are what you'd call "craftsmen".