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All you have to do is look at the public sector unions that have many cities and counties bankrupt or on the road to it because of their tactics. Can you say sky high pensions, 100% health care & etc? Granted, it was often partially due to the idiot voters who were scared shitless by the tactics of those unions. If we don't get that raise and the increase in pensions and benefits we'll lose half the police and firemen and we'll have to close half the schools. Very often the same holds true in private sector unions and the bosses have the members pressured to vote a certain way and for certain pols who are in their pockets. Most of the time though, it's the bosses in the private sector who reap the benefits while the members suck up the leftovers.
When it's so bad that it takes three or four union members to accomplish a job that could be easily handled by one person it is ludicrous. As an example, you have a union fleet repair shop. A vehicle is brought for some work. One guy needed to diagnose the problem. A second to order and acquire the needed parts. A third to make the repair. But wait, there's a bracket broken. OOPS! A fourth guy has to weld the bracket and a fifth guy to paint it.
End result? What could well have been accomplished in a couple of hours ends up taking a day or more.

Yeah, how stupid CAN you get?

Unions have outlived their need and have become an anchor around the necks of the general, non-union population.