Living in Quebec, i've become increasingly anti-union because they are simply abusive here - out of control completely (particularly the public sector unions). The best car plants aren't unionised - Toyota. Same wages and benefits as GM and Ford and such, but no union and guess what? They're doing far better than GM and Ford. You don't need a union to have a company that respects its workforce, and when you have company that screws over its workers, a la Walmart, bringing in a union doesn't help - see what's happened in Quebec - they just shut the store down. I don't really see a need for unions much anymore, not in most industries. I've never belonged to one. My parents have as they were teachers, but they both would have preferred to not have had to be a part of it.