Originally Posted by HeadPimp

We used to get them once in a while back in hickville, North Idaho. The saw mill workers would decide they needed more money, better benefits, ect. to pay for their new trucks, mudder tires, booze and what have you.

Great part was, that the mills were one by one closing during the time I was there. So the guys would go on strike, and sit around collecting a little bit of strike pay from the union, only to get a tiny raise. So they would lose six months of pay to gain a buck an hour.

The mean time, the sawmills would just ship the logs out to other mills, or whole out to Asia.

Talk about ass backward thinking. Striking for more pay, when your industry is dying isn't too bright.

I personally think unions in the united states are a detriment to the marketplace, and have outlived their usefullness in most cases.