Unions are still necessary, though they do not always act in the best interest of their workers.  (NEA supported common core thanks to big money coming in from the Gates foundation, but have recently backed away from Common Core because of teachers really not liking it)


I get the idea behind a move like this -- gives workers more power to negotiate as a group, rather than having to rely on individual power of negotiation while at the same time not reducing too many jobs.   But no company is going to join this agreement if it costs them less to just pay the $15/hour minimum wage.  So their workers will ultimately be getting less.  Bad move by the union.

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