[Alberta's Child]

If you look at the numbers behind these stories, a lot of the idiocy you see from the leadership of these unions starts to make sense.

According to this article, the UMWA had fewer than 10,000 working miners among its members. And yet according to its website, the union supports about 100,000 retirees and family members.

This union — like most other old industrial unions — doesn’t give a sh!t about its workers. It only cares about the politics of subsidizing its retirees.

[mewzilla]

Looks to me, from my above link, like somebody’s digging, but to the ChiComs’ benefit, not ours.

[Bon of Babble]

This union — like most other old industrial unions — doesn’t give a sh!t about its workers. It only cares about the politics of subsidizing its retirees.

If it's anything like the teachers' unions, it only cares about the politics of subsidizing itself.

Teachers' unions don't give a sh!t about retirees, only what they can collect from them in union dues.