[raybbr]

This should be the end of any discussion that unions are looking out for the workers!!

Of course, your post is about teachers' unions. This thread is about the UAW. Industry in the U.S. has only about 12.5% union representation as opposed to almost 50% in government workers. Over 500 posts and someone (other than me) finally posts a negative article about teachers' unions. What about firemen, policemen, municipal workers' unions, etc?

[Sunnyflorida]

Do you think the UAW or the transit union in NY is better? I have no problem with unions improving working conditions but many are very liberal (the fireman support that dolt kerry).

One big problem amongst others is that unions are a closed society and they prevent willing workers from getting jobs. They should be COMPLETELY voluntary.

If I want to move set up and install a computer at a convention in San Francisco I have to get a union goon to do it. This is the problem. Unions are anti-work.