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The threat of lawsuits is a far more motivating factor at ensuring workers are treated fairly than a union is. Unions are simply havens for slackers, do-nothings, deadbeats and skaters, more recently for illegals demanding even bigger slices of our country's pie (yes, I have first-hand specific examples if anyone wants them). The kind of person typically attracted to a union is the kind of person who would demand $100 from you, then b1tch and whine after you gave it to them that you didn't give them $200. You all know the type.

They have LONG outlived any usefulness they might have once had at giving workers a voice against management exploitation back in the time of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". There is simply no way, given how litigious a society we have now that such an era of robber barons could ever arise again.

If such-and-such a company gets a reputation for being unfairly tough on workers, people won't work there, or the company will need to pay a premium to attract talent. Amazing thing that free market. It even applies to labor! Who'da thunk it?