Chicago Daily Observer

THE financial crisis has unfortunately deflected attention from our next major meltdown: ordinary labor markets. The early days of an Obama administration will likely see passage of othe so-called Employer Free Choice Act – which will put a union noose around the neck of every US business, large and small.

Union membership has dropped relentlessly from about 35 percent of the work force in 1954 to about 8 percent today. The main factor is the massive attrition in failed unionized industries such as steel, automobiles and rubber. A chorus of labor advocates falsely attributes this collapse to management’s alleged unfair labor practices of management in union elections, about half of which labor wins anyway.