A labor movement should exist to protect that natural rights of the workers: that they should be paid a fair wage in a safe and clean work environment, and that reasonable expectations of vacation/family leave and medical/pension should be met.

The UAW has gone well beyond that into dictating to the auto industry who may do what job and the circumstances under which they may be done. And, thanks to the Wagner Act, protesting and renegotiating every disciplinary action against every employee, whether the employee in question deserved the punishment or not. The result is people doing 3-to-5 hours of work while getting paid for 8 hours, and turning out an inferior product in the process.

Why such insanity? Unions want to maximize membership, which maximizes dues. So we maximize employment, so we maximize the amount of work to be done, so we minimize the amount that actually gets done.

Wages are nothing compared to a work-rules contract that rivals the U.S. Tax Code in length. Such a monument to bureaucratic sclerocity would have made Standard Oil broke.

I know we’re supposed to be damning the fat cats with their top hats and cigars made of $2 bills, but even in the worker’s paradise the workers are expected to actually work, right?

Alarmist nonsense. It’s the insurance companies that will adjust or go belly-up. Doctors will be allowed to make medical decisions, it’ll be great.