If your employer threatened to cut your wages to below unemployment what fear would you have? You have nothing to lose, either you get your money or you lose your job and find another one?
So they shouldve allowed the corporation to take and take? While I understand most peoples gripes with unions, I have them for my own, the world isn't black and white. Maybe true only a union coudlve made them file bankrupcy, only a non union company can fool people into working for less than unemployment and be happy about it.
I'm a proud man, I'm sure like yourself, I would rather work than take any gov money, I have in the past and never intended for any of it to be long term and none of it was. But the idea that people should take whatever wage they can get is driving more and more people to the welfare line, not away from it. Until we can stand up against companies whoring out to get the cheapest labor for the biggest mark up then we are only hurting ourselves.
Driving down prices = driving down wages = driving down freedom