Thank you for giving credit where credit is due. Most non-unions are unaware or unwilling to acknowledge the fact their wages are upheld by union scale.
However, I find find it puzzling, to say the least , how you can be "staunch non-union" yet credit the union for your high wages?

You opine that the union has failed to "evolve". If by evolve, you mean give up job classifications and work rules and policies, I'd say we did just that in this last contract via the velocity and UE language.

You did not want to delve into politics, so suffice to say this: I am a member of two large organizations that are adamantly supporting opposing candidates. My vote is not beholden to either group, I vote what I feel is the best for my country. Not best for selfish me or the special interest groups I belong to, but best for my country.

You say the union offers too much "employment (not job) protection". Unless you've sat in a greivance hearing and heard both sides, I doubt you have enough facts to render judgement. But union membership not only protects those you deem unfit for employment, it protects hard working men like yourself. It protects you from at will employment status, so your load, your job cannot be taken from you on a managers whim, and given to a brother-in-law, or buddy or the omnipresent brown-noser.

You urge the union members to "make it work...For all of us...".
In response, I ask you to reject your staunch anti union mindset and look at all the benefits of union membership. Don't sit on the sidelines and ask union members to do the hard work and sacrifice and the heavy lifting so you can ride our coattails to a better standard of living.



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