I do not think that labor unions are necessary today because of what they stated in the CNN article. Workers are petrified to go on strike or say anything against their bosses because they need the job as well as the money. With labor unions, they complicate those two factors. Labor unions are slowly declining because big businesses do not want organized labor. It also has to do with the laws that Michigan passed almost stating that could not join a union. People do not find them as effective because they have the rights that they want. We have the weekends off, forty hour work weeks, paid sick days and much more. There are some upsides though to having a union because they stick up for themselves. The little guy does not get ran over by