member of the union. The machine he ran was run 24 hours a day in 3 shifts. It was a machine that shot bearings at a aircraft brake part to harden it. Someone did something majorly wrong and they couldn't pin it back to which of the 3 specifically, so they fired all 3 of the workers. My step father said he didn't do it and appealed to the union. The union was able to get his job back and without the union he probably wouldn't have gotten it.

Further, I had extensive family members working in coal mining in West Virginia and Ohio back some time ago. When I read about their conditions I cringe. Doing family history for these families I'm astounded at 8-12 year old boys working in the mines. My FIL started working in a mine at the age of 8. Unions and legislature finally cured that wrong.

I was a member of the United Mine Workers Union before my mission while working at Morton Salt Company. For me then, it was just seemed like a waste of money. We had a great plant manager, who was my home teacher.

I became a plant manager and we had the Ship Builders Union in our shop and I got the workers to vote them out because I knew I'd take care of the workers and they believed me.

It's like the BOM where there were kings that were good and worked themselves and everything went well in their kingdom until they got a lazy son that then became king and grievously taxed the people just so he didn't have to do anything. It's the same with unions. With some companies you need protection, while some you don't. Those demands of the UAW union are unbelievable, but when you see what corporations pay their executives it's just as crazy, but they can get away with it and few seem to believe that it's just a preposterous.