I will make this statement on unions: I believe that two guys at the aircraft plant, or two teachers teaching 4th grade, or two guys putting fenders on cars, should be paid based on their productivity, not based on how long they have been on the job. If we were forced to "market" ourselves by working hard, rather than doing enough to get by, and hiding behind tenure and seniority, the hard workers would get paid a better wage than the lazy guy, the way it should be. I know a guy that has a machine shop. He has one rule when hiring: He will NOT hire anyone that has worked in a union shop. They are ruined already. He would rather train someone from scratch than put up with the crap he got when hiring a "veteran" coming out of a union shop. And he has a very low turnover of workers, very high productivity, which is a big part of the reason why he gets busy when there are layoffs at the aircraft plants. He often says "I shouldn't talk bad about unions, the are actually my best friend. The unions price themselves out of business"

I see teachers get extremely lazy once they are tenured.

I am calling them like I see them.

Unions also have our governbment in their hip pocket.

Are all union people bad, of course not, but those that are good hard working people do not need the union.