re: Union enrollment plummets for Wisconsin teachers under tough law

The unions were created originally because the modern corporation was in its infancy and did not understand that their employees were their greatest asset. Those workers had no choice but to band together to improve working conditions and be taken more seriously by management. Now laws exist to create safe working conditions and the unions now only exist to a) exhort the corporation into non-competitiveness and b) protect the weakest players at the expense of the strongest.

In a union, the best employee suffers and must take lower pay to comply with the collective bargaining agreement so that the worst employee can remain employment at way too high a rate. It is mirroriing communinism in that regard - from each according to his abilities and to each each according to his needs. In the absence of said union, the shitty, lazy employee would be fired, the good employees would be better compensated, all employees would have more incentive to work harder and earn more, and the company would be stronger and more competitive as a result. Regarding government employees and teachers, replace profits with efficiency and effectiveness.