[thetrumanshow]

Its REALLY easy to hate unions, because they seem like money-grubbing fools on TV. However, as a young engineer at a Major DoD contractor back in the day, I shook my head in wonder at what the unions had clearly done for us in beating our path to more money (never been a union member, btw).

Our culture today despises unions to our detriment. Bargaining power isn't inherently evil! BUT, I would argue by anecdotal observation that it turns out that the more that said bargaining power concentrates wealth, the more evil it actually is.

[gcb0]

To have any bargaining power you need either unions or open salary information.

We have neither. That's why it was so easy for someone without scrupulous like jobs to drive salaries to wherever he wanted.