Unions were once a large part of our Land and much appreciated.  Until they were permitted to fall into the hands of evil men.  Power was the payoff.  consider this article from the Troy Record, Troy, NY, by Michael Barone, Political analyst for the Washington Examiner;
  

   "Barack Obama has been at pains to convince voters that he cares about jobs.  It seems to be a hard sell.  But he certainly can demonstrate that he cares about certain jobs--the 7 percent of private-sector jobs and 36 percent of public sector jobs held by union members.  During his two years and nine months as president, he has worked time and again to increase the number of unionized jobs.  As for non union jobs, who wants them.  Some pro-union moves have a certain ritual quality.  Democratic Presidents on taking office seek to strengthen federal employee unions, just as Republican presidents on taking office try to weaken.
     Other steps are more important .  Fully one-third of the $820  billion stimulus package passed almost entirely with democratic votes in 2009 with aid to state and local governments.  This was intended to keep State and local public employee union members-much more numerous then federal employees- on the job and to keep tax payer-funded union dues pouring into public employee union treasuries.
    It was just last year, for the first time in history , public employees came to account for a majority of union members.  This is a vivid contrast from the peak union membership years of the 1950s, when more then one-third of private -sector workers but almost no government workers were union members.  Which is not to say the Obama Administrationhas not looked after the interests of private- sector unions.  In arranging the Chrysler bankruptcy, the Obama white House muscled aside the secured creditors who ordinarily have priority in bankruptcy proceedings in favor of United Auto Workers members and retirees. 
    That's an episode that I labeled "Gangster Government".  Former Obama economics aide Lawrence Summers protested that his White house colleague Ron Bloom had made similar arrangments before.  But in those cases, Bloom was working for the unions, not for a supposdly neutral Government. 
   The 2009 stimulus package also contained Davis-Bacon law provisions requiring that construction workers be paid "prevaling wages," which under the bureaucratic formula turn out to be union wages.  That means the public pays a premium for government construction.
   It also means that Labor department bureaucrats must calculate "prevailing wage" rates for as many as 3,141 counties.  That takes time, and its one reason that there were not nearly so many shovel-ready projects as presidential rhetoric led some, including the President, to think.  In the meantime, the Administration has gone to great pains to promote union representation in private-sector companies even where theres no indication employees want it.  It appointed pro-union stalwarts to the board supervising airline industry unionization elections.  That board changed long standing rules on what counts as a majority in an attempt to get unions approved at non union Delta after it absorbed mostly unionized northwest.  The problem is that the employees kept voting against unionization anyway.
   Then theres the Boeing case.  Obama has called for doubling
American exports over the next five years.  But when America's number one exporter, Boeing, built a $1 billion dreamliner plant in south Carolina, Obama's appointee as geneal counsel  for the National Labor Relations board brought a case to force it to shut down.
   The theory is that Boeing needs to build the airliner in pro-union Washington State rather then in south Carolina where right-to-work law bars requiring employees to join unions.  Maximizing union membership eveidently comes first, before other goals.   The Obama white house won't comment on the Boeing case, just as Obama himself had no comment when teamster president Jim Hoffa, at introduced him at a labor day rally in Detroit, said of tea party backers, " let's take these son of bitches out."  The president's eloquent, and apparently heartfelt pleas for civility voiced after the Tucson shootings apparently don't apply to Union Leaders.
   Obama's partiality to unions is apparently rooted in a conviction that we would be better off if every employee were represented by a union. The market place says otherwise.  Private sector unionism has produced the General moters and Chrysler bankrupicies, while States with strong public sector unions, according to a Harvard study, have to pay higher interest rates to borrow money.  But unions do have one positive characteristic from Obama's point of view.  They funnel taxpayers' or consumers' money to te democratic party-$400 million in 2008.  So they get one payoff after another in return." 

The union membership themselves MUST take steps to correct this atrocity!  dc