<i>"Right, and it takes about half a second of thought to figure out why"</i><p>Well, yes - many of the people pushing this argument around the country really like labor unions.<p><i>"unions don't typically have billions of dollars they can use to further their agenda"</i><p>Interestingly, neither do most corporations.  Even the biggest aren't going to throw away their profits and alienate ~40% of US consumers (no matter who they pick) by running billion-dollar political ad campaigns.