Twice a day, I drive by the NH Public Employee Union building.
They have one of those signs out front where the number changes every day, you know, “240 Days Without A Contract”, the next day, “241 days...”, etc, etc.
The thing is, lots of guys drive by that sign thinking, “31 YEARS without a contract”
What makes them so special that an average working guy is going to care whether or not the public employees have a contract, reasoning (correctly) that if and when they get a contract, it will simply be screwing the rest of us over.
Not really relevant to the thread but the “days without” signs remind me of when my ship was in drydock at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1970. The big sign at the main entrance read “973 days without a fatal accident”. Later that summer at the Subic Bay Naval Shipyard the big sign read “9 days without a fatal accident”.