It seems like any time unions take over, the industry declines, but it's always the corporation's or government's fault. This is just propaganda from the rent-

It seems like any time unions take over, the industry declines, but it's always the corporation's or government's fault. This is just propaganda from the rent-seeking unions, to prevent people from taking their extra-contractual anti-free-market rights away. >Passenger rail itself was killed not by union featherbedding but by competition with the automobile and airplane--and government regulation that prohibited railroads from being able to cull unprofitable route The unions bled them dry by piling on ever increasing obligations on them. Maybe some services would have vanished due to the factors you mentioned, but not all of them.