[Recon Dad]

You go back to his childhood days I will bet you find Bill surrounded by a family of NYC union employees, who as I can attest would be virulent anti big business. And the biggest business of all in the early portion of the century was Standard Oil. They would have been the poster boy for everything union hate.

[TigersEye]

Ironically unions exist solely because big corporate businesses exist.

Even more ironically unions are a big corporate business.
For which there is no union to protect the little guy from.

[oh8eleven]

You go back to his childhood days I will bet you find Bill surrounded by a family of NYC union employees
Not just his childhood but the childhoods of all his ancestors since they fled Ireland.
My roots are NYC Irish 1850 (including a gg-grandmother O'Reilly), with ancestral links to labor unions as teamsters, printers and coopers.