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Yes but that is the past and I'd like to think the vast majority of places
are past the point where they need unions and can get good labor and pay a
decent wage w/o having to have it be over the top because a mass of people
force it to be.

I'd like to think that too, but do you shop at Wal-Mart?  A lot of people are starting to make a distinction between "minimum wage" and "living wage".    Personally, I believe that my earnings impart a responsibility upon me to use those monies wisely...a concept that Christians refer to as "stewardship".  Because of my conviction, I don't shop at Wal-Mart (though I do buy things from Home Despot...mostly out of frustration and lack of selection at my local hardware stores) and I don't feel that my biggest requirement in purchasing things is that the price be as low as possible.  I am willing to pay more for a quality product.  I believe that it benefits me as well as society for people to be able to earn a living that allows them to live above the poverty line.

regarding the union and the turnpike, I would have to agree that the case is completely unlike wal-mart.  I remember reading about a study that someone did for a turnpike (might have been MA) for how to cut costs.  The reccomendation was to eliminate fares because the cost of collecting them was greater than the fares collected.  This is not the case on the PA turnpike, but when EZ pass was launched, an agreement was reached that the EZ pass would not eliminate any tolltaker jobs.  The turnpike is a political entity, and eliminating patronage jobs is not the goal of any politician that I know of.

Like most things, unions bring negatives along with their positives.

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