That's ahistorical. The reason union membership rates declined is that the industries they dominated shrank. By and large the unions killed their own industries

That's ahistorical. The reason union membership rates declined is that the industries they dominated shrank. By and large the unions killed their own industries. For example, passenger rail service was bankrupted by the punishing collective bargaining agreements the Brotherhoods coerced passenger rail lines into. >>Not a lot. But that's the case for all of the west, and certainly also for the US. Yes, and a large part of that is that any investor knows that any large stable concentration of skilled workers in the West will unionize and began extracting above market wages. That's why the only unionized sectors in the West that have seen significant growth are those paid for by the taxpayer.