With all due respect intended for my Democrat friends, I am not anti-union. I do sometimes think that union leadership loses perspective & just looks to maximize pay/benefits to their membership without considering whether their demands can reasonably be met by management. My dad worked for many years for Allis-Chalmers as a salesman, working between the factory & the customers. I remember his story about a union dispute at one of the factories. Higher pay was wanted for the workers. They got it, on paper, but according to management, to pay those wages raised the price of the product so much that it was no longer competitive. The bottom line was that the factory closed down & all those folks, instead of getting higher wages, were out of a job. Sigh. My school district is a similar situation. Although I love the idea of getting more pay, I realize that the taxpayers in my small rural district are not particularly well-off. If they can't afford it, we can't have it, no matter how hard we push--simple as that.

respectfully,

bbc