Can you imagine if Silicon Valley went Union like Michigan? Can you imagine a software engineer at Google saying to Larry Page, “sorry dude, I can’t write that piece of code that’s not in my job description”. “Sorry Larry, it’s 5pm, I’m done today, Union rules dude”.
One of the reason high tech as a 4% unemployment rate and Silicon Valley has the highest incomes in the U.S. and the best companies in the U.S. (Google, Apple, Cisco, etc…) is b/c they don’t have Unions. That is one of he reasons Silicon Valley is still a sector of the U.S. Economy that leads the world in innovation.
Bloated unions have been one of the reasons Detroit has gone down the drain and got it’s butt kicked by Japan and Germany in the auto business. And GM had to be bailed out of BK by Obama. Can you imagine what Michigan and U.S. auto industry might be like if it was run like Silicon Valley with no unions? Might it be a little more competitive? Might they make better cars? Might Michigan’s unemployment rate be a lot better and everyone better off as a whole? Hmmmm.
