"RKO" wrote:

I was working on a job a few years ago and had a new John Deere 750C LGP Dozer ran in to the Missouri River because I would not hire out of the Union Hall. The Union Reps. showed up one day and asked why I was not hiring union people. I told them I was a small company and I had all the workers I needed to do that job. I pay my workers good and treated them like I wanted to be treated. The union guys tried to get me to go union but I wanted no part of it, and the guys working for me did not either. One morning we got to the job site and we could see the dozer caught on a piling in the river. Lucky for us it got caught on this piling because we could get a cable on it and get it back on the bank. We got it back on the bank and drained all the fluids, then the EPA showed up (some one called them that there had been a oil spill in the river) What fun!! Finally the EPA guy took some samples and said he would be in touch with me. I loaded the dozer up on a truck and hauled it to the shop, not saying anything to anyone. I next day I got a visit from the one union guy and asked if i had problem. I told him I did not have no problems. He said he heard I had a problem and heard I was going to have more. I basically said he could have bigger problems if I had any more problems. I stayed at the job site until we finished it and never had any more problems. The union calls us scabs, but I take it as a complement. To this day the union leaves me alone.

The Union might have a place but I think a worker should be able to choice if he wants to join or no. So often I see the unions sticking up for workers that are worthless and need to be fired. They make it hard for a company to fire a bad worker and so the good workers suffer.
Ron