so? You get fleeced at union shops for trade shows so this means all unions are bad and we should just do away with them...typical right wing response to a complicated question. When I think of unions, I think of the trades. Union workers in the trades are more educated, more skilled and more experienced at what they do. They are also more dependable. Think of the pipe fitters union. Do you know what a pipe fitter is? My brother in law is a 30 year member of the pipe fitters union just like his dad was before him. He works in missile silos, hospitals, university labs, oil refineries, chemical plants and all sorts of extremely dangerous places where the slightest error in his work could blow the place up or send the wrong gas or chemical to the wrong spot. He is being trained by his union constantly. Or how about the masons union? Ever watch an hombre build a wall or a brick building? Go to Acapulco and let me know how safe you feel in the thousands of condos and buildings they build down there with cheap unskilled labor. Built a house lately with the cheapest framers and carpenters? You get what you pay for.