American's stupidity about unions

The employees at the VW plant in Tennessee voted against the union.  They, like everyone else in the South, have bought into all the anti-union hype that the politicians and businesses have pumped into them.  I am from the South.  However, I had a very progressive father.  When I went to work for the Postal Service years ago, the first thing he said about the job was, "They have a union.  Make sure you join it." I did.  And I stayed a union member until I retired.  My union dues, and this is what most quote as not joining a union, were around $28/month.  Money well spent.  People have died to further the unions.  Everyone needs to research the Blair Mountain Massacre in West Virginia.  And that is not the only one.  Those men were murdered for trying to form a union.  The sheriff who tried to protect them was charged with treason and murdered.  How was it treason for doing his job?  And how could they send in the army to disarm the miners?  They did.

Fast forward to present time.  By voting down the union at the VW plant in Tennessee, these people have screwed themselves and every other southerner that has to work for a paycheck.  VW has a union that gives employees voice in the decisions of the company.  Every other VW plant in the world is unionized except Tennessee.  VW has stated that if another plant is located in the US, it will probably not be in the South.
Ikea.  Wonderful Swedish company.  Pays it's employees well.  Ikea located a plant in Danville, Virgiinia in about 2008.  They offered the employees a starting package of $9.75/hr with 12 paid days off, 8 of those days at the choice of management.  Sounds pretty good, right?  Until you look at what the employees get in Sweden.  Those employees are paid $19/hr with 5 weeks paid time off.  After the Virginia plant posted a huge profit in 2009, the home office rewarded the employees by dropping the starting salary to $8/hr and mandatory overtime.  Time off unless approved by management  was not allowed, ie, no family emergencies.  The machinist complained loud enough that they got the attention of the Swedish newsmedia.  The Swedish newsmedia sent reporters to Virginia to confirm these reports.  They were denied entry to the plant at first, then they were allowed to tour the plant but not allowed to talk to any of the employees.  The American media was not allowed in.  This got the attention of the international community and they were eventually allowed to form a union.  We have become Europe's Mexico.  We are a third world county and we are in that position with the full faith and cooperation of the stupid employees who swallow what they are told by the politician and business hook, line, and sinker.  Senator Bob Coker even threatened that if they unionized the VW plant in Tennessee then VW would be building no new products in that plant.  Even though VW denied this claim, the employees believed them.  Also, the city, county and state officials threatened that if they voted for the union then VW would lose incentives to have the plant there.  What in hell has happened to the Southerners that if you  tried to force them to do something, they dug in their heels and did just what the politicians were trying to keep them from doing. Oh, and Ikea was given $12million in TAXPAYER incentives, not business paid incentives, but taxpayer funded incentives.  Then those politicians and businessmen screwed the taxpayers.  We don't have a hope in hell if we don't wake up to what our politicians and businessmen are doing to us, the taxpayer.  And that will not happen.