Where we might differ on this subject is when the conversation turns to public unions.

Private sector unions work for companies that must turn a profit to survive, so the union overreaches at it's own ultimate peril. New realities have resulted in private unions to adjust benefits and demands to compensate for the economic decline.

This is not the reality of the public union workforce. It's harder for the public union employee to see an government revenue decline as having any bearing on his renumeration.