[yardie]

As for labor unions, they've really got to stop selling out their younger members if they want to survive. The unions keep bargaining off younger members' pay and benefits to protect older members. That ain't sustainable

Unions know this but most are between a rock and hard place. When negotiating contracts they can only do it for the people being represented up to that point. Anyone that joins after that contract is signed is on a new, seperate contract. So when a union representative has to bring back the terms to it's members its usually like this, "the company has agreed on the pay scale with us, but any new hires will be on a seperate contract. Do you vote Yay or Nay?" Now each union member has to decide if they will accept the contract as it stands or do they go on strike for some ambiguously defined "future hire".

In fact, this sounds exactly like how our government decides to run its debt. Do we pay it off and take the lumps or push all the hard decisions on ambiguous "future generations"

The fact is people are selfish and unions represent people. Personally, I don't care to join one but I don't get angry at people that do nor do I go postal in chatrooms talking about them.