ANTI-TRUST AND UNIONS

In the era of robber baron's and truly unscrupulous business practices, including monopolies, laws were passed to protect the public from these practices and crooks.  The principle was established that no entity could be allowed to completely control a product or service to the extent they became the only game in town.  This was a common sense approach to what could have allowed a few companies to have a strangle hold an our whole economy.  No one should have enough power to extort whatever price because they  "own it all".

Enter the unions.  Unions were labor's response to cruel and ruthless labor practices imposed by employers.  Even though the struggle to organize labor became violent, even deadly, eventually labor conditions and wages gradually improved.  As the local unions became more influential, there came a movement to nationalize them.. Think of it, a whole segment of the economy under the control of a powerful union which could shut it down nationwide if demands were not met.  You think that sounds dangerous?  When unions from all sections of the economy joined forces, the entire country became vulnerable to a shutdown of everything at the same time.  That is power that monopolies never had.

The principle established in preventing business monopolies should also apply to unions or any other power structure which can undermine our country.  If the power of unions is not curtailed, internationalization, which is happening, could shut down the entire world.  Talk about MAFIA extortion.  By comparison they would look like school lunch thieves.  Unions should be limited to local jurisdictions only: one company, one union.  Why should the gripe against one company affect other companies in the same business?