Today's Unions Doing More Harm Than Good

I’m sure that when the members of IUE-CWA AFL-CIO Local 84750 negotiated their new contract with management at the Genie Company, that took affect February 1^st of 2011, they were quite pleased with themselves. I wonder how they feel today knowing that their jobs are being outsourced to Mexico? Another in a long line of manufacturing departures from the area of Northeast Ohio, is it really any surprise that companies are choosing to no longer be held at gunpoint by union officials and their members? Some might call it corporate greed but the reality of the issue is that many US companies are no longer able to remain competitive due to escalating costs of wages and benefits. At the height of the industrial revolution it became apparent that employers were all too willing to take advantage of its labor force. We have come along way since then and times have changed. It seems now that the only thing unions are any good for is to insure that more and more business leave the country for those with cheaper labor, lower tax burdens and without the threat of work stoppages. Its time for union members to collectively come to their senses and realize that in this day and age, they aren’t owed anything because if they don’t, they’ll end up with nothing like the 70 employees at the Genie Company.