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Originally Posted by bigluv
Unions absolutely can be blamed.
Of course it would have been better to deal with the fallout at the time. But hello, your (and my) political system creates this kind of "pay it forward" situation. In fact, the whole of the USA is probably in this kind of a situation and I don't see your populace screaming about it too much.
The simple fact is unions like big corporations live to extract money by any and all means. When you have unions exerting political pressure, buying ads, supporting opponents, etc, then union members deserve what they get when their union extracts too much in their parasitic disgusting ways and as someone else said, 'the host dies'.
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So no blame falls upon the city/company. If you own a company it is your responsibility to run it properly and to honor the contracts and agreements you make. If you know a union contract is going to hurt you down the road you shouldn't sign it. You brought this on yourself.
Often the unions are simple the scapegoats as well. The companies/cities that end up bankrupt usually have a hell of a lot more problems than just bloated contracts. The city of Detroit is a good example. I have read a few different articles from pretty reliable sources like the Wall Street Journal explaining how Detroit got to where it is now and bloated union contracts is pretty low on the list of things that were done badly.