I'm one of those "Old Farts' you mention,....I'm a pre-deregulation driver,....started in 1975,........watched the development of Con-Way,....American Freight,.......OD,......been trying to convince guys for the last 25 years that the Surface Transportation Act of 1980 was designed to break the back of the Teamsters,....Prior to 1980, roughly 80% of truckdrivers were Union,....and that included a couple of truckload carriers,...like Schneider,...whom they de-Unionized by creating Schneider National, and double-breasting it,...and bleeding it dry. Same tactic at Consolidated Freightways and Con-Way,.....only that by the time they decided to shut down CF,...the business people were so arrogant, they chose to shut down the Union carrier,.....with no prior warning,.....on Labor Day,....2006,...as a deliberate insult to working people everywhere, and the Teamsters in particular...If you don't want to be in a Union,...Vote No,...If a majority of your co-workers differ with you, and vote in a Union,....well, I guess you need to look for another job,...if being in a Union is so distasteful to you........Yeah, yeah,....I know it's terrible, having to look for another job,...I had to do it nine times,....because the competition of the carriers I was working for saw nothing wrong with slashing their employees' wages and benefits so they could slash freight rates and put my employer,....whose wages were held to a contractual level,....out of business......Nine times.......This used to be the highest-paid blue -collar job in America. Pensions used to be stable. Healthcare was premium......And then came de-regulation,...where guys were pitted against each other in a race to the bottom.....Have we touched bottom yet?....And,...would that be the reason so many non-Union guys are finally contemplating organizing? I saw the difference in our job,...from when it used to be a good job,...and a little social respect,...not much,...but much more than we have now. If you guys wish that the "Union " will let you alone 'cause all you want to do is put your head down and go to work, and ignore the daily creep of intrusive technology,....ignore the fluctuating wages, with no rhyme or reason or no tie to profit or loss,...ignore management fostering a climate where employees are encouraged to...."tattle....on other co-workers,...merely to curry favor with a morally-deficient terminal manager,....ignore worsening benefits, ...equipment,..conditions....ignore the fact that every day you lose your First Amendment Rights when you punch in,.........just ignore it all and continue to work right up to the time they get rid of you, because you're too old/ too slow/ not "friendly" enough with management/ not in the right clique'. Most non-Union guys only think about joining a Union either a half-hour after they've been fired,...or a week after they've retired........In both cases, too late.........By the way,.....Central States Pension Fund will gradually work itself out of the hole Wall Street put it into,.....along with several other Funds.....In the meantime,.......401(k)'s will have gone through several "market adjustments" where you lose half of your "investments",....and at age 65,...you realize your ...."pension"..( an annuity, really...)....is only going to pay you about $600.00 a month.....You'd better hope Obamacare still exists, and you can go on Medicare,...'cause that $600.00 a month certainly won't cover your COBRA insurance premium...........