I agree that unions have out lived their usefulness. In Canada we have the Canada labour code that does a great job of protecting the employee and yes we have that act largely because of unions. With the current legislation in Canada unions are obsolete. Let the hard working, intelligent, dependable workers rise to the top. Unions hinder the separation of the wheat from the chaff. I know none of us in western Canada have ever worked on the line as Ottawa has seen to that. No other province has ever been given the opportunity to manufacture cars. Toyota wanted to put a plant in Revelstoke BC and that got quashed by Ottawa.