A lot of people here experienced the Good Old Days very differently than my family did, I guess

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49. For the most part, Unions are becoming a failed system as well.

The reason is fairly simple, Unions have kept their localized focus and have failed to adapt with the times as well. Like old brick and mortar book stores, if the unions continue down the path of a model set decades ago, they will all die out.

I am not against unions, but they must adapt or they will all die out.

Unions are uniquely capable of adapting to the gig economy as locals for labororers, electricians, carpenters, plumbers and pipefitters, and on and on, have always operated in localized gig economies. They just need to alter the capabilities to a more globalized fashion to provide human resources on demand as needed. In this way, Unions could both provide a highly skilled workforce on demand as needed anywhere in the world while providing nearly full time employment for all their members.

Instead, what you have are capitalistic based temporary agencies pulling in the slack. Instead of much of the money spent for on demand resources going to the workers, the owners are the ones profiting from this changing workplace dynamic. Unions are uniquely capable of competing against these agencies to provide lower costs to the companies seeking on demand resources while at the same time being capable of insuring higher pay to the workers they provide than the private agencies would ever be capable of doing.

So again, I am not opposed to unions. Unions are becoming responsible for their own failures, though, because they are not adapting to the ever changing workplace dynamics in a globalized economy.