AFL-CIO News: From White House to California, Workers Call For Freedom to Form Unions

"A delegation then presented to White House guards a petition signed by 100,000 workers calling on the Bush administration to honor federal workers’ freedom to form a union and back off proposals that would take collective bargaining rights from 650,000 civilian Defense Department workers and 160,000 Homeland Security employees."

The fact that it's not always easy to form a union is not quite the same as not having them, or fobidding them. Unions are OK, when voluntary, and usually not that terrible when involuntary when they start. If they stay involuntary, they get worse over time.

Union leaders need to have term limits; job creation should also be a specific goal of all unions.