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Or, to be precise, with this quotation? Two successive titles - successive, mind you - on the conservative news service Townhall.com:

Mike Shedlock:
U.S. Local Governments Cut Payrolls to Lowest Level Since 2006

Chris Edwards:
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation

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If the unions were not of advantage to the workers, they would not have lasted a couple of centuries. If the worker gets a raise above inflation of five, and the union takes two, the worker is still three better off. And if he were not, the unions would not last. Your constant attempt to associate unionism with mafia-like destructive exploitation is culture-specific but neither well conceived nor well argued. And I still say that you should at least have avoided the obvious violation of the most elementary logic.