When every single Republican is anti-union, why are so many DUers anti-union too?

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154. I'm going to weigh in against my better judgment..

.... conceptually, I am of course pro union because workers need SOMEONE on their side and right now unions are just about all there is.

This is going to sound rough so please use your "filter" and try to see what I am getting at here. Unions are at this point losers and nobody likes a loser. They have become more and more irrelevant with every passing year starting from the early 80s, maybe sooner.

Is it all their fault? Probably not, they were sold out by the people who claimed to be on their side (cough, cough I don't have to name them do I?). And no doubt they have made mistakes along the way but so has everyone else.

Unions are a great idea when a substantial percentage of workers are in one, not such a good idea when only a handful are and the rest of the non-union folks see it as basically a perk that they don't have. Few people are supporting a perk that they don't have and have no prospect of ever having. And do you see a nascent pro-union sentiment in this country? Nope.

Also, unions have FAILED at explaining why they are needed, management (i.e. Republicans) have done a much better job of making the case that they are not needed.

That, IMHO is why unions no longer have much public sentiment going for them, and why they continue to fail. I don't see that changing any time soon, if ever, though I would love to be wrong.