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Superman, it always comes back to the same "fair fight" theoretical nonsense. The problem with that approach is that often workers--either as individuals or groups--have priorities that work directly against productivity, flexibility and competitiveness. Giving them MORE power is like asking a child his opinion: it's a cute exercise but when it's time to go to school or do his homework or his chores you really don't much care what he thinks.
Further, if you look at the choices made by organized labor supposedly on behalf of the workers, it often is short sighted and harmful to their well-being in the long term. Remember the thread about losing defined benefit pensions?
So organized labor is good where? In circumstances where workers are exploited and treated badly. Curiously, you rarely see the unions helping the truly abused workers of the world. Guess there's not a lot of money in it.
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