Unions: to whence, and for whom?

Gallup notes that for the first time since it started polling Americans on their approval or disapproval of labor unions, the approval rating dipped below 50%. Only 48% of Americans now say they approve of labor unions.

Hopefully this sort of data bodes ill for the Employee Free Choice Act and its related wranglings on the Hill. In any case, I find it unfortunate that unions have so effectively turned what was once the ultimate act of employee solidarity into a synonym for expensive, self-centered, self-destructive protectionism.