You sir are 100% wrong. Our economy struggles do the lack of good jobs for people that have a high school diploma and want to work hard (manufacturing). That has nothing to do with unions. It has everything to do with unfree trade. Because of unfree trade, it is cheaper to make poor quality product in other countries. We (American's) would rather pay a few bucks less for the crap made in China.
Corporations have been breaking unions for years because you have no chance of competing on the world stage. I worked at a facility that was built to bust a union in the 60's. Yes, as in 1960's. We were the highest producing facility in our 'niche' for decades. A lot of people, at all levels, made a lot of money. Methodologies like 'lean' and 'just in time' must be flexible and the union environment isn't. Production workers at Toyota-USA, Hyundai or Nissan work for $25-$35 per hour with benefits producing vehicles that people want.
There are theories around that the GM bailout was to avoid bankrupcy. Some say it is almost certain GM and Chrysler would have been able to blow up the union contracts that they were under had they gone the bankrupcy route. Too big to fail, saving the union contract or both?...you decide.
At the end of the day I think we are to blame. We buy crap and have no problem with unfree trade.
I'm really not trying to pick on you, but your analysis is just lazy. Why don't you tell us about how a guy use to make a ton of money working for a company that made steam engines or horse drawn carriages? Times change. This is a Carlfense X = Y argument.
Global temperatures are rising while union membership is declining. That means global temperatures would go down if more people joined unions.