As tech jobs decrease, interest in unions is up

I worked with a guy in the Navy who told me about a night job he had, while in school, before joining the Navy. He described it as Hell on earth. It was a plastics manufacturing company. Picture big, hot vats of molten plastic.....

He said that the union guys would come around every year and lobbied them to form a union. The factory gave everyone a $0.15 per hour raise and the union people would go away.

One year the union finally got the workers to join. They went into negotiations with management and came out bragging that they had gotten a $0.30 per hour raise.... (over a three year period.)

Obviously, my Navy friend was not pro-union.