Labor Unionism, Two Views

"If there was anything that characterized the Old Left it was adulation of labor unions and of the process by which the government has created, maintained, cabined, and confined these unions to its will. Government c o n t r o 1 inevitably follows government privilege, and, as in the Fascist or Communist countries, privileged unionism has become in effect a powerful a r m of the State apparatus for controlling the labor force and the economic system as a whole. Rather than representing their members, union leaders have been coopted into the power elite, there to serve as transmission belts for keeping the workers under the control of the various governmental "guidelines" (an apt term.)"