I am pro-union, but there's a problem.
In one of my favourite movies, Matewan, the title characters says it best:
"Unless you admit every worker, it ain't a union no more- it's a goddamn club."
In a global economy, that means including Bangladeshis in the union. They're gonna (and are) bring down wages worldwide.
I'm all for this, since the number of desperately poor people is decreasing worldwide.
But it's happening at the expense of workers in the developed world, who find themselves working harder and longer hours for less money, and having to train themselves far more, and at their own expense, to get a skilled job.
I figure eventually we'll have more parity, and the working men and women of the world will organize and demand fair wages and working standards. And this time the corporations and billionaires will finally run out of new poor countries to move to, and will have to deal fairly.
Add to the mix the broader environment problem, forcing everyone to curtail their appetites.
Unless one is highly skilled or possessed of investment capital, it's not a great time to be in the workforce. But I think better times lie ahead.