That the people of that state are in a tough place? They are. Welcome to the competitive world. The rest of us have been dealing with it, but somehow its the destruction of the middle class (for them) if the union is weakened. I don't work in a union environment. I've survived all this time by working hard and taking my chances working for a big corporation.

You're acting as though people are entitled to good jobs that pay well. They aren't. People aren't entitled to jobs as all. A worker proves himself worthy of pay.

There's an old saying from my grandpa that has stuck with me all these years. He lived through The Great Depression. He once told me that "all work is honorable". This is from a man who picked fruit to survive, to being a successful business man...so successful that when he died, he left grandma (and the family) almost $2 million in finances & land. This was a man who worked very hard at any job at any time. And never once did he work union, because he said that work was his protection not "some thug".

~Jeordam