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I can relate, in 1981, all employees with less than 10 years at US Steel went out the gate on a single Friday. You see, the following year, the pension law was to change and people were to be pension vested in 5 years instead of 10. I had 9 years, 11 months, and 16 days of continuous employment, on that particular Friday. I was not alone, as 5500 folks lost their jobs in Gary, In. that day. I haven't been married to a single company since, and I never will again. I do the basically same job now, except I get twice the money and when the project is over, I collect unemployment until the U. Hall calls me again to go somewhere else. Much betta.



Most people don't realize the unions invented the middle class. Before unions people worked 6 days a week for 80 hours. Unions gave us the 40 hour week, vacations, health insurance, sick days, retirement, minimum wage.

Before unions, there was the rich and the poor.



The middle class existed long before unions as we know them were ever imagined. But, I will admit unions helped promote and attain most of those benefits for the "working class". Health insurance covered hardly anyone till corporations started offering it to employees as a substitute for pay raises during gov wage-price controls, it was a end run around the law.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken