I make $20 an hour with good benefits now. Industry average, for my experience level. I am damn proud to be a non-union machinist.
$25 an hour for what I can do, would be over inflating the cost of production, sending yet more work to china. But I would not expect you to understand anything about economics, as you seem to have drank to much of the socialist koolaid sold at union halls.
I would sooner make no money, then give money to the mobs that have become modern-day labor unions.