Dude, you've probably walked acrossed a factory once. You simply don't know what the hell your talking about. Unions, for good or bad, are largely responsible for building the middle class in this country. It sure as hell wasn't some reactionary ranchers from Montana. You're just another right wing ideologue who hates the middle and working classes and seem to obtain some perverse joy in denying people their hard earned share of the profits they have earned. Unions don't inflate wages. Unions collectively organize to do what any capitalist organization does. Charge what the market will bear for their services. Technology and automation have done far more to decrease the number of manufacturing jobs by far then Reagan or Trade Agreements have. Reagan's legacy isn't one of lost jobs. Reagan's legacy is one of lost rights in the work place and any fucking fool who's ever walked up or down the line in a factory would know that ya fucking fool. Why don't you try working in a factory before you come here and lecture us on a topic you don't know that first fucking thing about.