I guess I am the only one here who has posted that had a relatively pro union upbringing. My mom’s dad was a brick mason and his father as well as father in law were both coal miners. He felt that the union had given them a better life than they had. I am of the thought that while unions aren’t always right, they are and were needed. The people who rag most on unions’ corruption are strangely silent when it comes to corporate corruption. My other grandfather as an arbitrator for the NLRB had to find common ground between management and unions. Family lore says he very nearly could have been a presidential appointee but he was let go in I believe the Nixon years and then went in to private practice. I never knew him but everyone I have talked to attests to his sense of fairness.