Are current large American unions a good thing or a bad thing?
Example, The Auto industry: As you may know American auto companies are floundering; while Japanese auto companies are prospering and stealing market share from American companies hand over fist. One of the biggest problems American auto companies have is their cost structure they simply can not compete with Japanese companies when it comes to cost. And inside their cost structure one of the biggest contributing problems is the American Auto Workers union. A lot of the cost we pay for an American car goes to funding the unions and what the unions have won for their continuance. The Japanese companies do not allow unions and so do not have this burden in their cost structure which is why they are better able to compete. Even Japanese plants here in America are not unionized, and so Americans working for Japanese auto companies do not have a union. Would it surprise you to know that on average, despite not having a union Americans working in Japanese auto companies are equally or better
