[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Another reason I'm glad to live in Texas... right-to-work state.

[Wneighbor]

And for those of us who have always been in a right to work state it just seems sacriligious to think of things another way. Unfortunately, I have run across lots of unions here in WF. Surprised me about this area.

[Ramius]

So is Washington.

I really do not understand how anything ever gets done in towns like Philly. It comes up all the time. Anything we want to do costs two or three times as much to do as it would *anywhere* else. Even simple little crap that we can easily do ourselves we have to contract with a UNION laborer. If the UNION finds out that a non-UNION person actually PLUGGED IN A COFFEE POT without an electrician with a UNION CARD then suddenly there is no power to the building and no phones and there are pickets out front.

I am not kidding and I am not egaggerating with the coffee pot example. It is absolutely that silly.