The TRUTH about UNIONS.
What is a union? Generally unions are an evolved version of guilds. It is a collection of skilled or semi-skilled workers who collectivize to obtain better rates in the case of a guild, or better wages in the case of unions. Unions continue to use guild terminology such as "journeyman" even though union workers don't "journey" and sell their skills the way guildsmen did. Unions are most often associated with the trades, carpenters, blacksmiths, plumbers.
In business, there are two contra-effective collectivist structures, unions and corporations Corporations are collectivist capital - ownership by the group. unions are collectivist labor. The collective power of each is greater than the sum of the parts. While contra-acting, the two groups are generally symbiotic as well. Unions and corporations depend on each other.
Neither corporations NOR unions are inherently evil or destructive - quite the opposite, both are effective means of organizing a free market. Which brings about the first issue, the free market. Unions exist to provide negotiation from strength in the market to offset the responsibility of management to maximize corporate profits. These are symbiotic - if a union exists without a corporation on the other side, it has no purpose and is predatory - basically racketeering. Hence "government union" is an oxymoron. There is no "management" team seeking to maximize profit in government, thus there is no legitimate basis for unions. All government unions, police, fire, bureaucrats, etc. are illegitimate by definition - and as we have seen, essentially criminal in nature.
The biggest issue that markets face is trusts, the agreement between companies to fix prices and engage in predatory behavior. Standard Oil in the early 20th was a clear example of this - AS IS THE AFL-CIO, which is a monopoly of unions. By definition, a carpenters union has no relation to the teamsters union, but under the monopoly and trust that the AFL-CIO operates under, all unions act as one monolithic and highly destructive whole.
What the union goon bosses didn't grasp during the 90's is that the same democrats they bought, Pelosi, Biden, Feinstein, were taking bribes from an even bigger monopoly of labor - Communist China. Soon manufacturing left our shores.
I promised the truth, which is that unions are a good and necessary structure, but monopolies of all sorts are destructive, including monopolies of unions. Also unions are comprised of skilled and semi-skilled workers, unskilled labor, such as SEUI has no place among unions and is simply preying on both workers and employers to enrich themselves. Government is not a corporation, there is no management, no board of directors, no shareholders and no profit. Unions are an abomination in government and openly criminal in nature. This includes the mal-educators unions.
Your “TRUTH about UNIONS” offers some reasonable insights in its first two paragraphs, but then goes increasingly off the rails, at least in my opinion. The idea in your third paragraph that unions can only be predatory racketeering organizations outside of the corporate context is repudiated by the very history you outline in the first two paragraphs.
Craft guilds and unions have a long history and one closely associated with advances in technology, science, and city life in the Middle Ages. If we study Masonry in different periods, guild and fraternal and professional organizations participating in old cities like Paris or London, or if we concern ourselves with the passing on of skills, the maintenance of standards, traditions of craftsmanship (from shipbuilding to architecture), or just simple self-help organizing as in funeral societies and cultural societies ... then we must also discuss the roll of gilds and unions. “Corporations” themselves sometimes started as little more than chartered commercial guilds. Many of the traditional roles of “unions” evolved and exist up to the present, even as great industries employing great numbers of workers came into being and then declined in more recent times in this country.
You want to “criminalize” government unions? This is preposterous. You don’t understand what government is, so you can’t imagine a role — any role — for government unions. Your view of the structure and power of the AFL-CIO is ridiculous: you say, for example, “under the monopoly and trust that the AFL-CIO operates under, all unions act as one monolithic and highly destructive whole.” This only shows how little you know about the labor movement. You particularly pick on “unskilled workers” who are often the most vulnerable and have the most to gain, and sometimes are the most active.
Of course not all government unions (or private industry unions)
are truly progresssive — there are unions of cops, of teachers, of garbage men, of bus drivers and office cleaners — they usually serve to keep wages and conditions just a bit higher and better than they would otherwise be and protect their members in other ways too. They are good and bad locals. Democratic and corrupt unions. But they almost all are worth keeping, and nobody but the workers themselves should make decisions about their very existence.
Your view of the Democratic Party, whose leaders you claim (unlike Republicans) were somehow “bought” directly by both “union goon bosses” (who wanted to “Buy American”) and “that even bigger monopoly of labor - Communist China,” is also exceptionally false ... and idiotically ultra-partisan.
Your whole idea that “free trade” is threatened in the modern world primarily by “monopoly” is an ideological construct from an earlier time before the onset of world-straddling and competing corporations tied to nation-states and blocs, and you show no understanding of how trade, in particular international trade, can and should be made more free through international organization and treaties.
How could you understand these when you do not discuss or understand the inevitable rise of “state capitalism” or the role of “nationalism”? Your talk of defending “free trade” — while in fact advocating “union busting” of one of the few areas where independent unions still exist —
especially at this time of renewed interimperialist conflict and U.S. unilateral attacks on WTO norms, is just playing into the hands of Wall Street, the MIC, and crony capitalists seeking to smash popular opposition at home. These forces are moving to mobilize our citizens for trade war, Cold War, and soon likely real wars overseas.
) but that in no way indicates it is "inevitable." 
