I’m union Diana, but not dyed in the wool. And wouldn’t trust the old guard unions, AFLCIO, Teamsters, as far as I could kick them.
It was these very behemoth unions that cost Wisconsin our manufacturing jobs decades ago.
AO Smith once employed twelve thousand people as it’s zenith. PH is another in a long line one shut down and cost the area thousands of jobs. This area was built on the incomes of manufacturing.
Not any longer. The unions broke the back of the big mean old companies. Power to the worker! Now there’s no jobs in the tens of thousands. Only in the hundreds, and now the unions want to destroy them as well.
Cya (-:
Yep. Dad and both my Grandpas were Allis Chalmers & PH non-union workers. They refused the extortion and were always the first ones laid off but, they always got their jobs back, too.
I remember many times in my youth when they'd be sharing a few beers, unemployed, hanging out on the porch, railing against the unions...but they had their pride and were good men who wouldn't cave in.
You know, they just don't make 'em much like that anymore. ;)