Americans Don’t Miss Manufacturing – They Miss Unions (2016)

Likely to fall on mostly dead ears here. Since unions stifle the concept of a 10x-er and other valley employment stories.

Manufacturing unions are on their way down and have been for a while. The ease of having off site campuses and companies supply chains being less reliant on their own output ensures this. The hay day of the great lake region shipping causing a centralization of manufacturing, while all being under a federal jurisdiction that empowered unions, which with a concentration of unions in a region making them a political force... Might as well be dead.

Construction unions (building, electrical, plumbing, and similar). Still have quite a bit of life since those unions tend to have some amount of control over licensing, regulations, and similar. Though these also have a greater range of people/interests in them, so you hear of them less often.