You've been listening to the right wing (cough!,cough!) 'fantasies' about public employees, teacher wages,and benefits. For example the average NYS pension hovers somewhere around 20K a year. Big bucks, eh?? Public employees are not getting rich on their salaries, and struggle just like everybody else.
There are those people (usually lawyers,and political hacks) who have legally swindled the pension fund, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Union enrollment as a percentage of the workforce nationwide is heading toward single digits. Corporate America, is simply telling you what they want you to believe. Get your news from multiple sources instead of those particular networks that have an axe to grind against people who work for a living......