One of the many problems with the current "liberal" intellectual establishment

Far too many, like Yglesias here, don't seem to get you don't have meaningful liberalism (read: economic egalitarianism) without organized labor. Drum is closer to getting it right in that post but even he hems and haws and says some annoying shit about "pathologies" and whatnot. The concluding paragraph is the strongest point.

You just can't pull labor and full employment apart. It's not a matter of emphasis. A country without a strong labor movement is almost inevitably one in which economic and political power is overwhelmingly on the side of business interests and rich people, and that means you're not going to have sustained full employment because that's not what business interests and rich people want. It's all about power, baby, power.

Unless you understand at least this much, that politics isn't about "bringing people together to get things done" but rather fighting against people who are out to destroy you for their own enrichment, you really aren't on the right side of this.