Mach
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j-mac,Unions jobs are a minority of jobs in the US. It's hard to demonize unions as the culprit when they make up such a small minority of private sector jobs.
They make up a much larger part of the education system, which is the single largest determinent of how educated our current work force is, and how educated our future work force will be. And education of course being important factors in crime rate, whether they will go on to be productive and pay taxes, or criminals and suck taxes, or welfare junkies who have 5 kids and suck taxes, it affects birth rate, it affacts their probability of saving and having a self-funded retirement, it determines our global competitiveness, and helps move domestic industry to higher skilled labor, etc. etc.
You do know the political power that teachers unions wield right? And how they are the largest(?) political donor organizations?
No, it's not very hard is it. One traffic accident can block a freeway for miles and impact far more than just the accident participants.
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