I am continuously shocked at your unwillingness to note that labor union's raison d'etre is to limit labor supply in any given industry. While this has the effect of keeping salaries high, it has negative effects on employment. For every replacement worker just trying to earn an honest living that labor hounds, I sympathize. You don't.

Sicko.

Can you give an exmaple where the Autoworkers Union, for example, has asked employers to cut the number of workers? Most of the time, unions are fighting with employers to increase the number of employees, even as employers are trying to restrict the number of jobs.

What is your evidence that unions cut the number of jobs? The height of union density was the 1950s and 1960s when unemployment was quite low.

In fact, the criticism of unions has sometimes been the exact opposite of your statement-- that they demand such tough job requirements, such as maintaining a humane pace of work, that employers are forced to hire more workers.

We can debate that point, but the idea that unions demand less employment, rather than more, is just not a credible complaint.