UAW Wants To Help Tesla

One of my grandfathers was a coal miner and belonged to the UMW (or whatever it was called way back then). When my dad was a young man he belonged to a steel workers union, as did two of my brothers for a while.

I recognize there was a need for unions at one time, especially when the government stole people's land via eminent domain (and other quasi- and illegal means) and then gave that land to the coal companies. Socialism for the rich didn't just start with the Goldman-Sachs bailout.

But I think the unions have more than outlived their usefulness. The 'Rust Belt' exists largely because the unions priced themselves out of their jobs.