Striking Wal-Mart workers aren't just fighting their employer. They're fighting a whole system.

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38. You are completely misinformed about the work and mission of unions.

They are not protectionist guilds working for a few against the many, as you suggest. While unions do attempt to protect workers safety, health care, wages, and work schedules no union has ever promoted this at the expense of other workers.
The goal of unions is that all workers enjoy fair labor practices and safe work-places.
Today, as a result of naysayers and anti-union legislation, unions protect and fight for fair labor practices for both union members and non-union members, who are too short-sighted or self-centered to contribute to their own futures by paying union dues.
Many workers wish to opt out of paying a union to represent them in labor disputes but few of these know anything about working conditions before union pressure changed the work-place forever.
Business has waged a war on workers (and unions) and convinced ill-informed workers to join their ranks but that is not evidence that unions have failed to improve working conditions, in fact, it is evidence that they have been successful.
Time to wake up to the reality of the American work-place, FarCenter. It is not unions you should disparage but the greedy goals of unfettered capitalism.