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While modern unions might be more dicey in their need to exist, the main reason we hit a golden era of the American middle class in the 40s-50's was due to unions. That era was a time when a man could support an entire family including owning a home and a fairly new car all on one salary.

Without unions the average American workers situation would be far worse in the modern world. Shit, a main reason unions have more trouble these days is a lot of the jobs that used to pay very well and were extremely plentiful have moved over seas. Why pay some American $15-20 for that factory job when someone in Bangladesh will do it nearly as good and ask for $1.00 an hour or less.