I really think that in past times and maybe in some instances now, the unions were a good thing. Such as making the owners make coal mines safer and things like that. But now they have Govt. Agencies that are supposed to do that and all the union wants to do is set back and collect more dues. And as I stated earlier, Jamo I have thought about this, the CWA Union which represented the communication workers was out of date and worthless in the early 60s. I can remember when they would threaten to go on strike the company would encourage it as they saved a ton of money, two or three of us could sit in the tech center in Sacramento and monitor every computer in the state and if there was a problem we would call the supervisor in that area and send him to that machine. Then we would talk him through what to do. After a couple of weeks of not getting paid the union settled for less than the offer they had when they walked out. And the number of problems with the machines dropped by over 80% once we got the people out of them. I believe the CWA finally had to merge with the Teamsters just to stay in business, and the Teamsters sure as the devil don't know anything about this stuff. Now it is even less as they have 1 person where there were three of covering a big area, and usually that person isn't really trained at all. I don't say this is true for all businesses, but it seems the unions by their continual wanting more money are less concerned with the people they are suppose to represent than they are with being able to raise their dues. And I do blame the unions for many of the companies either going under or moving out of the country.
Ron
