If you do any research at all on non-union shops facing union elections, the first rule to keep the union out is give your workers no need for a union: pay them wages nearly that of the union shops, give them protections and benefits nearly that of the union shops, and then the workers will probably not turn to the union since it does not materially improve their income or job.
Flash forward three years if the conservatives get their way and the union movement is effectively dead in this country. The UAW is first to go followed by the rest of the AFofL, Teamsters and others. How long do you think those $24 dollar per hour jobs will exist in foreign automakers shops?
Do some reasearch into the wages and working conditions of pre 1936. The good old days were not very good for workers. Unions changed everything. For those in the unions and for those riding their coattails.
If the market won’t pay them those wages, then too bad for them. Should everyone else be forced to subsidize these high wages for low skill workers just because there is a UAW?
What about a guy making $12/hr at non-union blue collar work? Should he pay a higher price for a car so that auto workers can keep making a wage that they shouldn’t be?
Unions always want to make this a fight between rich people and “the working man”. What it turns out being is “the working man” vs. “the working man”.
I grew up in West Virginia. The biggest union state in the country. If unions worked, then West Virginia would be the Mecca of the east coast. (Hint: It’s not)
You have a few handful of unskilled workers who are friends/family of powerful politicians who get high paying union coal mining jobs. Everyone else can go suck eggs.
Even if you have a skill, you can get lost because a business won’t locate in West Virginia because of the union activity and the high taxes to “stick it to the rich businessman”.
Your “pre-1936” argument is specious as well. You don’t need unions anymore for a 40 hour standard week, minimum wage laws, safety laws, etc.