[jamieb]

>but the U.S. government stepping in to FORCE employers

Sounds like you're against the US Government.

>Unfortunately, because you are replaceable you don't have pull and SHOULD NOT have pull.

A clever businessman would organize all these replaceable parts into a cohesive whole, and then having cornered the market, set his own price. That's capitalism in action. The very people who decry it are the same ones cornering their own markets. When its telecoms, cable TV, healthcare, widgets, corn, DNA, etc, its ok, but when its "units of labor", oh, well now its anti-capitalist and anti-american.

So I'll go along with your idea that Unions are an illegal monopoly on labor after we've gotten rid of the government-created construct called the corporation.

[innguest]

I'm pretty sure the OP also disagrees with the monopolies telecoms, cable TV, healthcare etc have, so that's in line with his thinking already.