Albert "the Mad Hatter" Anastasia along with Louis "Lepke the Butcher" Buchalter first became heads of the Garment Industry unions & the Garment Industry itself in New York in the 1930's which paved their ways to head the unions that dealt with all the waterfront activies amassing for themselves & their organizations great wealth & power & from there they found out how to branch out. By the way they were also the founding & controling heads of Murder INC. As far as I'm concerned for blue collar unions the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. I've never worked for a non union company that would've concidered my death a benifit instead of concidering giving me death benifits. I've also never work with more thugs & criminals than my 10 yrs as a member of a construction union (the president who planned my hit had already served time for murder while the BA was serving time for extortion). My wages were higher as a non union employee & I worked as many hrs as I wanted rather than starve every other 6 months. Do we need union, yea, like a hole in the head. Barry, who's still alive & kicking