No the are not. If the concessions are deep enough, you probably make more on unemployment than if you worked and unemployment is likely to be 92 weeks.
Furthermore, the proposed "card check" bill (if passed) will require "binding arbitration" so the arbitor may impose a settlement on Mercury Marine so that they have to stay and they have to pay union wages.
You might try using some math befor you delude yourself into thinking a Machinist is going to come out ahead on
$1500/month Unemployment. Do You work for the local democrat Congresscritter with those kinds of statements?
They aren’t going to get $20 an hour on unemployment.
Besides, you just don’t sit around on your backside and collect your money. You have to do a certain amount of job searches and report in every 2 weeks and you can be audited at any time. If you cheat, they can demand repayment. You have to attend work conferences and jump through other hoops too.
At least that’s how it is in Texas. But then we are one of the few states in the country that is doing well.
Unfortunately, half of Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin is moving here because of it.