General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: I Am Surprised That Michigan Defeated The Pro Union Amendment. [View all]I still don't understand what you're arguing. I'm well aware that there are a lot of very rich people who hate unions. The fact that they cheese off the Kochs and Walkers of the world is one of the reasons I do still like unions on the whole.
What I'm arguing against is this (IMO) head-in-the-sand notion that the only reason normal working Americans could have negative attitudes about unions is because of some national propaganda campaign which nobody can actually come up with examples of. (Gollygee did mention some ads and mailings below, which I've never seen, so maybe it's a geographical thing? I don't know.) But I worry that the one thing labor doesn't seem to want to do is look at their own actions over the past several decades for a hint (well, that's not true: SEIU does and has, and is making some very good changes because of that).