- Oct 12, 2009
- 58,613
- 10,629
- 2,030
The people in Michigan looked around and saw that the unions weren't helping them. Michigan has an 18% unemployment rate. Detroit has 45% of it's people not in the labor force, 34.5% is on food stamps and under the teacher's union, there is a 7% literacy rate in schools. You can go to some remote village in some third world mountain and find a better than 7% literacy rate. Then, glance across the border to Indiana that has lured almost 100 companies out of Michigan to Indiana because they became a right to work state and it gets pretty clear. The unions, whatever they did that was good in the past, have long since stopped benefiting the people in the states where they exist and have now become harmful.
While your general points are correct, your numbers are simply wrong.