Also, I'd like to add just because a state is Right to Work doesn't mean there isn't Unions. It just means you have a choice whether to join the union and in all those places overwhelmingly workers choose to join the union and have representation. I've heard stories of management picking on some of the non-union guys in those states and the Stewards and Reps doing pretty much nothing about it. Sounds like a good idea..... NOT!
A related issue is when giant police funerals disrupt public transportation, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in police salaries to attend. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...affic-school-dismissals-in-pr-william-county/
You remind me of a union meeting I once attended. When I joined the Oregon State Employee Union I was required to attend an indoctrination meeting. So I'm there with a coworker and a union rep jumps up on a table and starts hopping around on it and screaming at the top of his lungs how the state was trying to fire each and every one of us and only the union stands between us and unemployment, how the state will only pay minimum wage without any benefits were it not for the union, how we are mandated to hate our managers... so anyway, he gets redder and redder in the face and starts, literally, foaming at the mouth until he started hyperventilating and starts to pass out. We all helped him off the table. I was pretty amused by the whole thing. Then later in labor talks, they sold us down the river.
Story sounds a little fishy. What local was this? There's weird people in all facets of life, not just Unions. We aren't ordered to hate our managers its a natural process that plays itself out.
I was working for the Employment Dept in Hood River and the 'show' was in Salem at HQ. Beyond that I was a teamster at UPS many years ago as well.
