[LakeCleElum]

I've been on both sides of the fence. A union local President sitting in contract talks and going thru binding arbitration. In later years, an administrator sitting on the other side of the table.

There is certainly a place for unions, but they've gone too far when they run their companies broke. It's not just the UAW, it happens everywhere. My wife just retired from a large grocery warehouse and has a Teamster retirement. That union ran the company bankrupt and she was lucky there was a buyout just months before she retired.

In the very county Jeff H. resides, some gov't workers only show up for work on 178 days per year out of 245 days scheduled. Couple that with low productivity, expensive benefit packages, overtime to pay for the no-shows and it's a wonder any company can survive....That doesn't even count the hours spend surfing PELICAN on the job!!!!!!