re: #326 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

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.

It’s good that the experience changed his mind. A lot of people and some of them are even my friends bitch about unions but they don’t know or honestly appreciate how they’ve made our working lives that much easier. There’s a reason why we live longer than our parents and grandparents generations and the unions deserve some of the credit.