>> I’d say you’re the one who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Just alot of noise.
My apologies for bad manners: I mistook you for a different poster who had suggested that I didn’t know what I was talking about.
Please excuse this misdirected salvo. I would keep the rest of my posting stet, but perhaps adjust it for tone, now that I have realized my mistake.
As an American, my view of unions is different from yours. Unions, at one time, served a very useful purpose. However, companies today, if they have learned anything, know you can't continue to treat employees like crap and keep employees around.
On the flip side, rather than make workplaces safer, more efficient, and negotiate for better pay, unions today seem to have a penchant for asking for more than any group of workers should be worth.
I have experience with three separate government unions. The mentality is all the same. These folks, while ignoring the fact that most are vastly over-paid for their particular jobs, when compared to the private sector, often complain long and loud about how their pay doesn't measure up. Government workers get ten paid holidays per year, whereas the private sector employees get six. Government employees, at virtually all levels of government have better health benefits, leave benefits, and retirement benefits than their equivalents in the private sector.
To top it off, many, not all, government employees in all levels of government also seem to have mistaken "public servant" for "lord of my dominion."