[mreid]

I led collective bargaining for a major steel company with the USW for 10 years. I will spare you my horror stories of union shenanigans. What I will share is that the USW is the reason steel failed in this country and moved overseas. We had a union and a non-union location. The non-union location had consistently twice the productivity, better pay,and better benefits. They earned it and it was a pleasure working at that location vs. any of the union shops. I left when a large steel company purchased the business and allowed the union BS pattern bargain into the company turning the non-union shop union. Two years later, they were bankrupt and sold overseas. My meager pension was raped by the union and is now owned my the PBGC. Anyone who feels that a union adds any value at all is living is the far distant past.