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They actually operate to safeguard against abuses from management, and also operate to ensure collective bargaining. Giving money to political parties is something unions do to further their cause; they don't operate "solely" to give money to the Dems...

And all this other talk about unions not being needed now, since they served a purpose in the past..really? They're needed now just as they always have been...just take a look at the shitty economy and all the outsourcing of jobs that has taken place over just the last ten years. The rich continued to do very well during this recession, while the middle and poor classes did not. For all of their faults, unions do try protect the middle class and working poor. Unions are not obsolete, since corporate America is still corrupt and generally does all it can to increase the bottom line at the expense of its employees.

Ironically, I do disagree about Americans being worked too hard, since many American companies do not even want full-time employees anymore. It's just another way of fucking employees out of raises and benefits, which again, are areas that unions have always fought over.