content: That's what happen when Marxists become established as the governing class. All of the sudden the general strikes become evil, after all they were just a means of bankrupting the bourgeoisie, wasn't it, how dare they use the same tactics against a "democratic" regime. Unions can be very good in order to negotiate better conditions, a means for employees to group and talk to their employer, and negotiate contracts, like normal people do. What's awful IMO is that Corporativist thing they have became now in most countries, where people are forced into supporting or joining labor unions and their desire become the law of the land, where government uses them to control employer-employee relations, or even in more extreme cases they can become a Government sanctioned mob. Sadly, in a lot of places the Fascist ideology won the war in that regard.