Even my super strength can't stop this injustice

Being the remarkably awesome superhero that I am, I am frequently called upon to fight those that are perpetrating injustice on the innocent. Not unlike the A-Team, if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and you can find me, maybe you can hire Mighty Mightor.

But in some rare cases (very rare cases, as in Hale-Bopp comet rare) there is a problem that I cannot stop, despite my unmeasurable abs and pecs, my ability to make a volcano explode by punching it and my flying speed of approximately Mach 100,000. Such a problem is the Writers Guild of America, but not the fact that they are currently striking for a bigger cut of dvd and online residuals for programming that they write. No, the real problem is that people with jobs this cushy even have a union.

Wikipedia describes a labor union as a "continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." Fair enough. Labor unions date back to the guilds of medieval Europe, and were designed to protect people that were working in downtrodden conditions and needed defense against being mistreated, such as metal workers, garment workers, women of the night, miners, etc.

Notice that I did not mention screenwriters or baseball players. There's a reason for that. Unions and guilds were erected to benefit workers that -- let's be honest here -- were at the lower rungs of the economic totem pole and basically had no choice but to work in their particular profession or otherwise starve and perish.

Baseball players and screenwriters do not occupy such territory. In fact, I would argue that they (as well as superheroes) are quite possibly the groups of people that least require unions . They occupy an elite rung of society, one of prestige and power that is rife with extreme perks that millions of people would die to have. Contrast this to the perks enjoyed by the guy who mops up pee water on the floors of bathrooms at Dodger Stadium. His profession is not as popular, or a easy. Hence, that guy needs a labor union much worse than Michael Crichton or Alex Rodriguez.

It is important to note that superheroes do not have a union, because we are the very elite of society and everyone wants to be like us. I enjoy being a defender of freedom and a defeater of chaos because -- while it's nice helping people -- i get to fight crime in a loin cloth with my pecs showing.

Interesting side note: Super-villains actually have a union, and to be honest they need it more than anyone else. Because they constantly are being mistreated -- namely by me!