"Unions are nothing but collusion in the labor market place. You can't support anti-trust and turn around and support big labor." /facepalm
Yes, unions are collusion in the labor market, in that groups of employees get together to represent themselves collectively as an entity.
Which seems pretty reasonable since corporations are just groups of capitalists (shareholders) that are incorporated to do business collectively as an entity.
Unions just level the field.
It seems pretty fucking bizarre to claim that its ok for SH to incorporate a collective group to do business using their collective assets and stability that comes from being a large corporate entity that would be impossible for an individual... and then turn around and say unions shouldn't exist. They're the same fucking thing. Both end up being effectively large corporations trading goods and services.
"The real issue is government simply needs to protect the domestic labor from forces like illegal immigration "
That's only a "real" issue in your fantasies. Illegal immigration is a genuine border/security issue.
But illegal immigration is not really a real problem for the labor market whatsoever. They make up like 3% of the labor market, nearly all of it unskilled work, particularly farm work, and most illegal immigrants are working jobs american's don't want. And if you managed to deport them all the shocks to the labor market would actually be profoundly negative -- prices of the goods/services they provide would shoot up and availability would drop.
As with many people, you also appear to be conflating legal immigration (H1B visa and various other programs) with illegal immigration.
"and set a tariff schedule that to neutralize any advantages in labor cost savings abroad the final price of goods."
Tariffs are effectively a regressive tax on the low income and middle classes. They don't "punish companies" for imports. Companies inevitably just pass the cost of tarrifs onto consumers.
Longer term tariffs can artificially create an environment where certain goods can be competitively produced locally -- creating local jobs, but the entire time its a structurally inefficient market propped up by the tariffs and consumers will pay higher prices for the goods than they would otherwise regardless of where the goods are produced. Tariffs and protectionism in general may make sense in some cases where it is in a national security / interest in having certain industries local in the event of global war and trade issues -- where you effectively choose to deliberately have the taxpayer pay extra to subsidize the local industry just so that it exists locally if you ever need it locally. This can makes sense for the production of war materiel, and to ensure some local production levels of some key staples of food and energy.
To repeat myself, tariffs make sense when its worth it to the nation to deliberately prop up an inefficient market place at taxpayer expense to have local production for national security reasons -- that's IT.
By and large tariffs as you seem to envision working them are counter productive and harm precisely the people you think you are trying to help.