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Why Unions Must Grow???? To Pay For Their Own Existence!

From a recent MSNBC article highlighting the UAW’s recent attempts to gain a foothold in foreign owned non-union auto manufacturers. Exhibit (A)

The United Auto Workers union is staking its future on the kind of struggle it hasn’t waged since the 1930s: a massive drive to organize hostile factories.

…the target is foreign car makers, whose workers have rebuffed the union repeatedly. Specifically, Reuters has learned, the union is going after U.S. plants owned by German manufacturers Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG, seen as easier nuts to crack than the Japanese and South Koreans.

It’s a battle the UAW cannot afford to lose. By failing to organize factories run by foreign automakers, the union has been a spectator to the only growth in the U.S. auto industry in the last 30 years. That failure to win new members has compounded a crunch on the UAW’s finances, forcing it to sell assets and dip into its strike fund to pay for its activities.

Note the main concern. It’s not about unions actually helping the workers much, it’s about maintaining the unions administrative expenses. And in the entire article, UAW President Bob King never makes the case as to why the workers would be so much better off if they unionized. And, to top it off, how do you convince anyone to unionize when this fact is out there for the working world to see:

Workers know that almost every job lost at U.S. car factories in the last 30 years has occurred at a unionized company, while almost every job gained has come at a non-union company.

The union enthusiast of the world have to face facts…. As bad as things are right now, it’s NOT the 1930’s. I have nothing against unions. They were a necessary and constructive force in their day. But the world changed around them, and they were far far too slow to adapt to those changes.