In a global economy, are US labor unions harming the chances for US workers to keep thier jobs?

Question

Such as the UAW.

Answer 1

Labor unions  are not harming the chances of US workers to keep their jobs Nafta is   Nafta is the worst thing that has happened to the American worker in the history of the US

Answer 2

Yes and No. It's time to face it globalization is here to stay and NAFTA is not to blame, we have been trading with foreign nations ever since we have been a nation, and will contine to until we are no longer. I hear a lot of people complaing that NAFTA made it unfair for the American worker to earn an honest living, these same people shop at Wal Mart filling their shoping carts with products made in China. Why dont they get it? The reason American workers are loosing theior jobs is because they simply cost too much to employ.  It's not the unions fault it's simply that we do not have 1.3 billion people like China does therefore they have a compettive advantage in human resources over the U.S. We are in the process in America of switching from a labor intensive nation to a more capital intensive nation, structual unemployment is expecter during this transition. The only reason I could blame Unions is that for too long they have made it possible for John Doe who only recieved a high school education to make it into the upper middle class while in manufacturing, without them the transition to capital intensive would move more smoothly. If we never had unions we would be worse off, so for this reason I will never blame them.