I don't often visit you, Nathan, although I do maintain a link and have recentlyly added you to my RSS feed.

My dad was union, though a quite poor local one. As for myself, I'm neither pro nor anti-union. All I know for sure is that management existed before unions, and that unions would never have existed had management treated their employees fairly to begin with.

My dad has now passed, but I am forced to remember how he lost 30 years of retirement credits when his company went bankrupt. Some funding came in eventually and provided him a few years of retirement credit, but even with that, he retired a bit early to secure them because they too were going under.

My mother in the meantime had done well, and that provided both of them with a good deal of retirement security. My dad died after five years of a cancer that killed most people in 1 1/2. But that was my mother's pension that made that possible, a pension provided by civil service. And they are trying to take that away too now.

As I said, I am not particularly pro or anti-union. But these days, my horns get up real fast when people start trying to say a union is all of the problem. We know that unions have probelems, and some are quite ugly. But to let management run unrestrained is the height of foolishness. Just ask my dad. It's what he would tell you if he still could.

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