[jkarolyi]

I blame the unions themselves. That workers are forced to join a union to get a job should be illegal.

Unions were necessary 100 years ago to make workplaces safe and hours reasonable. Now we have laws and lawsuits for that, and a union's only purpose is to play havoc with our free market labor system. Messing with this system makes unionized companies globally uncompetitive, thus making huge layoffs like this necessary.

Ever wonder what happened to our steel industry? Manufacturing of all sorts? Our auto industry is going the same way.

Does anyone know if Toyota or Honda factories in the US are unionized?