UK: "The nightmare of union power is back again"

Given all the money that Obama is pumping into unions, is this the type of powerful unions that Obama would like to see in the US?

Seeing the trade unions rise up like the undead has been a salutary experience. Following the horror show of threats and blackmail staged by the TUC last week, we have had a specific notice of intent from the GMB to call a national dustmen’s strike, thus conjuring up one of the great iconic images of the winter of 1979: those vistas of overflowing refuse bags piled high in London’s West End. What a political gift this is to the Conservatives, whose glory days were built on the blood-curdling tactics of an earlier generation of union headbangers. . . . .