[sammyg2]

I was hessitating posting in this thread but when pat came out in favor of unions, that sealed the deal.
I worked in a union in the early 80's, and I am strongly anti-union because of that experience.
Lazy good for nothing workers got paid the same as the hard working guys. It was against the rules to treat them any differently, so there was no incentive to work hard at all unless it was a personal character trait.

Nurses in a union? The medical profession is already screwed up and that just adds to the general piss-poor level of care.

teachers union? they might as well call themselves teamsters.

Work hard and be a top performer and you don't need a union to protect you.
Or you can be a lazy slob and have a union cover your butt and make sure you get away with doing nothing.