I have no dog in this fight for I worked for a non union shop in the aerospace industry for 32 yrs....For 32 yrs I prayed for a Union and we almost got one too....until the co, got wind of Union meetings at the Hotel up the street from the plant....after it all washed out around 15 folks that were the main ones talking up the Union magically got promoted into supervision, lead line rolls, and even a couple went into mngmt....2 people got walked out for talking about it on co time....after that coorporate flew down and gave us all a little bump in pay and a week off with pay at Christmas and 2 extra PTO days per year... ( thing about is the other facilities were already getting those benefits and some of those shops were Union... ).....Anyway...folks came out of that meeting and Union talks were done.......They forgot all about the Union...Year after year I went thru layoffs and watched good folks and workers lose their jobs in layoffs and several folks with many many more yrs of experience than a lot they kept(Buddybuddy system)...Thats where Unions come in...They doubled our health care premiums twice in 5 yrs and worse coverage....Thats where Unions come in.....The last yr we were in business we sent coorporate a 70 million dollar check....CLEAR PROFIT......then they took the covid bail out money, shut our doors and let around 250 people go and I guarantee you half the folks in there had around 20 to 35 yrs service with a pension and 401k...THATS WHERE A UNION WOULD HAVE BEEN HANDY...They Packed our equipment, tools benches and moved our work out West and hired a bunch of temps to replace us-lol....Got a call a week ago the co, wants all us former employees to fly out to Tempe for 6 months,37 bucks a hr, all the OT you want(time and a half) and pay for all food and Lodging.... Not. one. person. signed. up. Bastards....
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( thing about is the other facilities were already getting those benefits and some of those shops were Union... 
).....Anyway...folks came out of that meeting and Union talks were done.......They forgot all about the Union...Year after year I went thru layoffs and watched good folks and workers lose their jobs in layoffs and several folks with many many more yrs of experience than a lot they kept(Buddybuddy system)...Thats where Unions come in...They doubled our health care premiums twice in 5 yrs and worse coverage....Thats where Unions come in.....The last yr we were in business we sent coorporate a 70 million dollar check....CLEAR PROFIT......then they took the covid bail out money, shut our doors and let around 250 people go and I guarantee you half the folks in there had around 20 to 35 yrs service with a pension and 401k...THATS WHERE A UNION WOULD HAVE BEEN HANDY...They Packed our equipment, tools benches and moved our work out West and hired a bunch of temps to replace us-lol....Got a call a week ago the co, wants all us former employees to fly out to Tempe for 6 months,37 bucks a hr, all the OT you want(time and a half) and pay for all food and Lodging.... 
Bastards....
