By exercising a majority vote for our labor platform, we legitimize our fundamental restructuring of society. They could shut down production, create mass unemployment and either force the workers' government out of office or force it to run things their way once again. It is this union movement that gives the workers the means of cutting the bosses off from their economic power source at the point of production. Conditions in the world are critical. If we don't change our society soon, life as we know it, may not survive.
Capitalism is a dead system.
Since the Great Depression, it has been propped up by Government spending. WW II put half the workers in the service, the other half in war production. The whole idea of balancing the budget, reducing debt, and getting the government off the backs of business is as utopian as it is foolish. Capitalists, the biggest recipients of government welfare, are not the slightest interested in Laissez-faire capitalism. Major corporations benefit from government-funded research and product development free of charge.