Aleksandra Kulczuga‘s union piece is worth reading in its entirety, but this nugget in particular jumped out at me:
The average union staff plan is funded at over 95 percent, while the average funding percentage of a rank-and-file member’s pension plan is 79 percent, according to a September study by the Hudson Institute. None of the staff pensions are on the Department of Labor’s list of critically underfunded pension plans, while more than half of rank-and-file pension plans are endangered. (A pension is considered “endangered” by the government when it contains less than 80 percent of the assets needed to cover its liabilities.)
Sorry, but that just doesn’t sound like looking out for the working class. Not even a little bit.