What I Love About Unions Is How They Always Reduce Quality!?

SEE HERE Of course I'm being sarcastic. Unions have a long and dishonorable history of destroying things, the newspapers in New York, the railroads, the quality of education. If a union touches it you can count on the fact that it is likely going down the drain. The day is long since past when unions (read guilds) were guarantees of quality. That was a different world, a pre-industrial work of craftsmen. Most unions have been about things like featherbedding. I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm no great fan of management either since my experience is poor there as well. Management is only good when they're in it for the quality. As soon as they're in it for power, prestige, money or something like that, they're just as bad as the unions. Maybe the only solution is something like G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc envisioned which went by the unfortunate name of Distributism. The idea is that of the small proprietership and in the United States it might be the small business. Big business is in league with big government against the little guy. (an oversimplification of course — All generalizations tend to be wrong in one degree or the other, the world being much grayer and murkier than clear.) I thought this story of a retired marine being forced out over forced unionism is emblematic of a much bigger problem we have.