At 10:48 PM 5/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I've been a member of several in my life, currently the Teachers Union. The
>reputation of unions has suffered greatly for a variety of reasons. The
>propaganda of capitalist society plays the leading role, but the fact that
>unions have all too often become the handmaidens of capital looms large in
>the sorry state of their status in citizens eyes.
>fs
>

  The best thing that could happen to the union movement
  would be passage of a law providing for their strict
  regulation, auditing, and democratization - not unlike
  the laws for corporations.  Note that the democratization
  could be real, unlike the phoney stockholder voting in
  the corporations.

      Mason