Originally Posted by dogzilla

I've lived in New England and New York my whole life. My hometown was one of the many mill towns in New England in the 1960's. I watched as unions helped make manufacturing in New England non-competitive and as the company moved work to the southern US where they had lower priced labor.

I have no use for an organization that tries to extort union dues out of me as a condition of employment. That's been limited somewhat now by laws which allow an employee to resign from the union but still allow a union to collect an agency fee from that employee. Some states have right to work laws that prevent that extortion, but not so here in the northeast US.

I have no use for corrupt union bosses who regularly misuse their positions or who embezzle money from union pension funds, or otherwise steal from their membership.

I have no use for stupid concepts like seniority or being prevented to step outside the boundaries of your job definition by union rules.

I've worked 35 years in technical skilled jobs and my income has increased several multiples over the rate of inflation in that time, without having to work in a union shop.

So basically, unions can pound sand.