“…but because workers can’t form unions any more”

….because the fact is that they CAN form a union…quite easily and virtually at any time they want. There’s not a single solitary thing stopping them. However, I suspect that the remark concerns itself more with the CONSEQUENCES of forming a union rather than any supposed outright prohibition against it.

Face it; workers have seen what unions have done to employment opportunities in this country over the last few decades. Millions upon millions of union members have lost their jobs….NOT because they were fired on the basis of their membership in a union, but rather because the grasping demands of the unions that “represented” them either forced their employers out of business, or drove them to take their employment opportunities elsewhere.

So let’s put the blame where it belongs. Workers can FORM a union quite easily. What they CAN’T do, however, is find a domestic union so-formed that is able to function rationally and not undermine their job opportunities.

Seems to me that, until unions find a way to make a POSITIVE contribution to the labor environment, there will be little in the way of long-term “union formation”. As it stands today, the movement is feeding on itself.

Elections, as they say, have consequences. There is something very Tea Party about the NUHW supporters’ insistence on clinging to the guns of opposition and the religion of Rosselli.