The other day stellar columnist and political commentator Michael Barone had a great column on the overreach of unions in America today. Naturally his thoughts coincide with ours here at the blog.

Barone notes that one of the “interesting” things about this administration is the “strange dominance of labor unions.” Maybe not so strange seeing as how Obama was the happy beneficiary of some $400 million in campaign spending during his run for the presidency, as Barone reminds us.

What is strange as far as Barone is concerned is that the unions haven’t gotten the one thing they really want: card check. Well, that may be true (so far, anyway) but Barone also notes that, card check aside, the unions have gotten a LOT from this union bought and paid for president.

Barone listed a litany of union friendly decisions that this president has made and when one sees them all in one post, it really is startling.

What Barone reveals is a president that is hell-bent to give unions everything they want and that, Barone says, is bad for the country.

Adversarial unionism, as prescribed by the New Deal-era Wagner Act, would mean an end to management flexibility and the cooperative management techniques employed by, among others, the foreign-based auto manufacturers. UAW contracts had some 5,000 pages of work rules; if any were violated, the shop steward could shut down the assembly line.

We know how that story turned out. It took U.S. manufacturers multiple decades to achieve quality levels comparable to those their foreign-based competitors achieved with American workers.

This will make our poor economy far, far worse.

Michael Barone has a great column that you really should read.

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