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I belong to a large Association, we used to hold our Annual Convention in the Hyatt Regency on Wyzada, in Chicago. It "The Association" would bring from two to five thousand people in for a week. We finally moved to New Orleans, the Chicago Union Thugs, were just too much for us. It sometimes cost more to have a Thug run an electrical cord from the wall to a display, than it did to fly the display from California, commercial Airline. Good By Chicago. Figure out how much your Union rate per hour as you stand in the unemployment line.

It isn't just Chicago either. From my experience with Las Vegas, Anaheim, Dallas & New Orleans convention centers, the unions there are all are a bunch of scam artists. We used to truck a large trade publication to these conventions; we now do a CD instead. Last time we took the paper edition to Anaheim from Florida it cost $1200 to truck it there and $1700 to get it from the loading dock to the booth. A few minutes with a small front end loader. What a rip-off! We changed to a CD and carry them in our selves.