What is the purpose of labor unions?

Question

What is the purpose of labor unions?

Answer 1

To protect the workers from unscrupulous employers through legal means

Answer 2

right now, not much. it's good to have the dog on the porch, ready to bark. But now with a global economy, and many people willing to do union jobs for less money (remember the union -created term "scab"?) unions make themselves rich on the workers back while pricing them out of the market.

Everyone who has ever worked knows what they did for a certain amount of pay could have and would have been done for less by a more desperate person. hence, the 'scab".

Look at ford & GM now. besides that they make antiquated gas guzzlers, the price of a new car is directly reflected by the pay of the union auto worker who puts it together.

and the Tata Nano may go on sale in America. In India, it will sell for 2,500. you think it will sell that cheap here? no way, it makes too many people look greedy.