Comment by adamsea

Let us review the Ludlow massacre:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

I feel like your point, although containin validity, kinda misses the forests for the trees w/regards to what I was trying to express.

By no means am I claiming every particular union is perfect. What I am claiming is that organized labor is, at present, an important way for people in the working class (which really does include us white-collar knowledge professionals, at the end of the day) to gather power and use it to negotiate decent pay, humane treatment, fair treatment, etc, when there's a long and very visible history of the folks in positions of management and power being very comfortable with exploiting and abusing the employees of their own companies, if they can get away with it.

Unions are a means, not an end -- like government. Like the market.