I completely agree. The problem is that unions tend to have noble beginnings, but eventually grow to become complex bureaucracies, heavily complicating the manufacturing process. UAW is a perfect example of high expectations and demands meeting the real world of union vs. non-union labor competition and outsourcing. Availability of cheap oil made shipping of goods across the globe possible at virtually no cost per-item. As long as oil remains cheap, the trade wars will continue and any worker willing to cross the union will be able to dismantle it and remove its bargaining power simply by offering to do the same job for less. Countries and governments will advertise their lack of regulation and willingness to break up unions in order to attract business. Decent treatment of a union employee without a job? What good is that? How about a competitive pension plan with no money in the bank? What unions do not realize is that sometimes bad business is better than no business. They're driving jobs out of the US. When the times are good they want their bear share of the profits. When times are tough, they go tough on concessions. They take their convictions to the grave. The more bureaucratic they are, the more inflexible and ill-adapted to change they become and eventually vanish with the tide.