we studied affirmative action and standard company policies to conform to the laws and avoid lawsuits for discriminatory hiring practices. I remember one of the professor's comments essentially being that while the laws are intrusive, the companies that allow unlawful hiring to happen willfully or inadvertently probably deserve the sanctions they receive. If we accept that as true, or even mostly true, doesn't it also make sense that unions that hold employers hostage to the point they suffer productivity and potentially go under would deserve it when/if the company decided to move production overseas? This isn't a fair-or-not post, but more of a random 5 minute musing.