> "Unions have outlived their usefulness in the American economy." I used to think this way; even having grown up in and around Detroit. But it only takes a f

> "Unions have outlived their usefulness in the American economy." I used to think this way; even having grown up in and around Detroit. But it only takes a few years of actually paying attention to continued corporate abuse of employees -- numerous cases of flagrant violations of labor law and regulations -- to realize that's completely wrong. All unions are not the UAW or Teamsters any more than all companies are Enron and Merrill Lynch.