Wes,
While I was still working and before I was eligible for retirement, the companies started buying people out to downsize. They came to me to see if I would come back to work as a lead Instructor after retirement. I asked them if the union would have anything to do with it as I was more than fed up with unions at the time and would not have anything to do with them. The CWA was totally worthless as all they cared about was the top people making more money and going on strike against computers is the best thing that can happen. Get the dam fools out of there and the troubles went down by 90%. They told me that the union would have nothing to do with the few people they hired back and we would get our retirement plus they would pay us more than we normally made since there would be less of us, 1 for every 10 that they had under union contract. Also as a lead instructor, I would have from 5 to 10 instructors working for me and I would get paid for each day any of them worked as well as my own pay. That was why I was trying to see how they were going to work this deal and get around the union. By the way, the CWA did sue and lost on the case which I was talking about as there was some technicality that I don't even know about that let the company do this. Unions had their time long ago but I am not any fan of a union in this field at all.
Ron
