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Let me be clear. I don't think unions should be abolished. I think that in some industries they serve a valuable purpose. The IBEW and Plumber's Unions provide training, for example. My problem is that current laws favor unions, and in non-skilled and semi-skilled trades, the UAW and Teamsters use sympathetic laws to bludgeon companies (and not just large corporations) into submission. I simply think that the balance of power needs to be shifted away from unions. Electricians and plumbers, who do have skills that take longer than 5 minutes to acquire, would probably be largely unaffected.