Labor unions were great 75 years ago when slave shops were as plentiful as fast food restaurants are today. The unions were badly needed back in the 1920s and 30s when labor abuses such as using children and women and working each well in excess of what should have been allowed. Men’s working conditions weren’t all that great either and many men who fell ill while working would soon find themselves on the outside looking in due to a severe shortage of jobs caused by the Great Depression of the time.