[Meech]

Granted most of my experience relates to auto unions. But isn't what where it all started? Aren't those the "prototypical" unions?

Try and do a trade show at a detroit expo center. You are _forced_ to pay union scale wage to an electrician to screw in a light bulb.

Again, perhaps I am jaded because I was raised in a union region. But to me, the unions main purposes are to:

- Extort money from the membership.
- Artificially inflate wages.
- Defend those who perform below average.
- Punish those who perform above average.

The day and age where unskilled labor can earn $30/hour are gone. Loooong gone.