Unions: Bad for America?

From Biggovernment.com:

Big unions want to get rid of an 86 year old volunteer school crossing guard:



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A woman who voluntarily watched neighborhood kids for 20 minutes each day.

An eagle scout who voluntarily cleared a walking path in a park (SEIU did this outrage).

From Hotair.com on union angst over the blocking of Craig Becker, a terrible nominee for the National Labor Relations Board:

The problem for unions isn’t that Democrats are weak allies, but that Labor’s goals have become so radical as to split the only party that will countenance them. In decades past, unions fought for reasonable access to health insurance, workplace safety, and job security, an agenda that could win broad support from both parties. Over the last twenty years, the unions have become much more interested in hard-Left policies such as universal health care, and in staking out ridiculous demands on the labor-management relationship, attempting to win through government force what it could never gain through any reasonable negotiation.

In the long run, unions kill jobs. We need jobs. Whatever their past glories and benefits, unions are past their prime. Unions are bad for America.