Reply #7: And there's an underlying number... [View All]

[bleedingedge]

That would represent the number of people opposed to unions. I'm in OH, I can think of nobody in my circle of friends, acquaintances, relative who openly believes in unions. That's what I find really disheartening - not just the fact that the unions are dying, but that most people don't seem to recognize how disastrous that will be.

My own wife refused to join her shop at her prior job and is currently in a job where there is no union. Of course, the "management" of the company was recently pressured to withhold bonuses that were supposed to be paid out for work done in 2003. Now she's starting to understand why I've always told her unions were a good thing.

And that's the way it will go. As soon as the Honda plant in Marysville decides they're going to cut benefits, etc., I'm sure my brother-in-law will stop prefacing the word "unions" with the phrase "those Goddamned" and realize that Honda was only good to him because the threat of union organization forced them to be.