Which, of course, is why I am typically very leery of GOP "reforms:" In the Republican Party, "reform" is usually a euphemism for "kill." So tell me again how ya'll are gonna "reform" Social Security and Medicare to "save" them. All things considered, I think I would prefer Republicans "reformed," say, campaign finance.

Yeah, modern unions have serious problems, though their US effects on non-union members are largely nil thanks to Taft-Hartley killing US unions. However, let us not pretend all the abuses unions were created to reduce (and could never hope to end) would not explode overnight in their absence. To a great degree, many abuses such as requiring overtime, sometimes not even paying time-and-a-half for it, paying less than subsistence wages, offering health insurance and pensions, etc. have ALREADY returned in full force precisely because US union membership has fallen to around 10% since Reagan used Taft-Hartley to cripple unions.

So instead of just finishing the job by OFFICIALLY outlawing/killing the anemic union presence still present, why not ACTUALLY reform unions flaws while preserving/restoring their valuable safeguards against industry abuses? Why are unions ALWAYS, and industry NEVER, the villain in the Republican narrative? Maybe the "problem" with unions is not all the money they give politicians, but that they give it to the WRONG politicians....