California Refugees

Can any one think of a good reason for teacher’s unions still existing? Unions for the most part are no longer necessary and just breed corruption and anger. A lot of unions if not all require membership for employment in certain industries. We moved from LA to wash. state in ’94 and it took some time to get established and on a solid footing. In ’98 I got a job with a large office-supply company driving a truck and delivering office supplies including furniture, file cabinets, chairs, and copy paper. It was extremely hard work, long days, but it was a good job. In ’03, we “merged” with another company that did contract customers and my job went from residental to commercial customers. One of our biggest customers was BOEING. Our cross-dock was 1/4 mile from their biggest site and we delivered TRUCK LOADS of paper and supplies every day. Their union building is in between both locations. Do you know what they have in front of the building, a sculpture of a “family” standing around a 55 gal. drum with a fire in it holding up their picket signs! I rarely went on site, my routes were south of there, but the regular driver who went there first every day got to know the employees at their docks,and even after signing a big contract and receiving a huge bonus, they were already talking about their next “strike”! The workers who just drove a forklift or cleaned the floors were considered “machinists” and made more money than any of us. So much for labor unions being necessary.