Given the crime associated with unions, the featherbedding, the simple observation of how union dominated companies and whole industries abjectly failed in the post-post-WWII era, well, let's just say they did all the demonization needed to themselves.
Keep in mind, unions were just performing a public service. They were acting badly so that people could see just how low a bar you could set for people to still prefer unions over corporations.
Honestly, though, unions missed the mark in this case, they vastly overestimated how high the input would have to be to get to get a "true" from public boolean is_more_ethical_than_corporation(int union_ethics).
EDIT: hga - I can't reply, which is probably a good thing. I got a little overly sarcastic there. It doesn't help discussion, my apologies.
Wow, when I started coming of political age in the very late '60s and read about the murder of Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Yablonski), I had no idea the game was so deep....
Are we overlooking the crime associated with corporate management, the featherbedding, and how non-union company employees abjectly failed to thrive in the -- what's a "post-post-WWII era" anyway?
How many murders can you cite ordered by the management or even committed by the rank and file of Fortune 20 or so companies (equivalent to the United Mine Workers or Teamsters I mention in two incidents in another reply in this sub-thread)? Any comments from Jimmy Hoffa?
Post-WWII is a strong period for unionized employees and companies, with much of the competition suppressed by war time damage, and the playing field less tilted toward unions by the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947. Post-post is after that, when many if not most unionized US industries declined, e.g. steel and auto.
