re: #315 HappyWarrior

In my observations, a lot of people who don’t like unions or don’t trust them either don’t know a world where unions had to fight for rights (younger people) or come from well off families who never really had to see the benefits of unionization. I’m a younger lizard but having come from a working class family on my mother’s side. I know first hand about the benefits that unionization of the miners had for my grandparents’ families.

My dad was a small business owner for a long time, and had no patience for unions. [His shop had one employee, so no union there.] Then, he had to give up the business and work as a tech in a factory. It was a union shop, and he had to join the union. Oh, he complained, but it paid well and frankly he needed the job. Then he had to go in for a heart valve replacement. Union benefits paid for most of the cost.

He never complained about unions after that.