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Steve, you strike me as a good man, someone I could sit and have a beer with and enjoy a good talk. So here is my position in a nutshell, maybe you'll have something to respond with.

I used to be about as anti-union as it is possible to be. After seeing a whole lot of dirty deals done by "management" types over the years, my opinion is changing. I'm not even referring to the well known scandles we all know about, like Enron and Tyco and Global Crossing, I'm talking about things that I saw with my own eyes, knives stuck very deeply into my own back.

No pity for me, I've done very well thank you. I've had my own business and been independant for many years now. But after seeing what I've seen in my own life, and after seeing what we all have seen with these recent scandals, I'm changing my way of thinking.

I find myself thinking that maybe a totally free market isn't such a good thing after all. I find myself thinking that maybe unions aren't such a bad thing. After seeing the debacle of electricity "deregulation" in California I find myself thinking that maybe some things really are better off being in the public sector.

So, what do you think?