Corporate shareholders are permitted to form a union of owners. It works for them. Workers should have the same rights. That's just balance. As far as the bad

Corporate shareholders are permitted to form a union of owners. It works for them. Workers should have the same rights. That's just balance. As far as the bad strategy comment goes, I've been working in both public and private unionized organizations since the 1980s. They seem to do quite well and I'm happy to have benefited from good salaries, benefits, company-matched savings plans, and a great pension plan that is -- contrary to all the propaganda out there -- very well managed and sound. That being said, your comment does capture the "race to the bottom" mentality that free trade agreements have produced. I agree that if countries choose to allow capital to move freely and constrain labour at the border, the result is sub-optimal for the majority of us.