Why I hate labor unions.

They were needed once, but nowadays they foster thuggery and hold back progress. Too many unions have sold out their members by aligning permanently with Democrats like Kerry, and talk about them being "for the working man." If union dues are being spent to support political candidates, they're too high. Maybe they should be forced to credit their members' personal campaign donations against their union dues.

I had a neighbor who was killed in a mine fire in 1984. He used to tell me how the mine kept dropping safety practices to save money. The last one was to do away with his job as a dispatcher at the mine portal and send him to work on the long wall miner. The union did nothing. That's where he died.