I belong to Maine State Employees Association which is part of the SEIU. You who strongly recommended we join this union? MANAGEMENT!
Actually, I think I must have got on their list back in the fall when I sent them a nastygram about their push for card check. I assumed that they would quickly delete my email address once they realized I wasn't one of their thugs. The only time in my life I've had the misfortune of being in a union was way back in my college days when I was forced to join the Food and Commercial Workers just to get a part time job bagging groceries at the local Kroger.
Way back in the day the teamsters tried to unionize where I worked in Texas. If they succeeded the owner was going to shut down and we’d all lose our jobs. A thug told me if I went down the hill to work I’d get a bullet in the back. I had to go down for a moral reason but I’ll leave that out of the story as it’s personal. I told him just to make sure he killed me, and I gave him a long look. that was the end of that