When I read Duncanpup's union stories, I think of my Dad.
He was in his late 40's when he got his first union job, Steelworkers Union. He drove 50+ miles one way to work at a copper smelter. It was hard work but he had three sons in the military, one daughter in college and me out on my own for the first time.
He would take the bypass express to avoid inner city traffic. That was until my first apartment was on a through street that he could use just see that I was ok.
I didn't know he was driving by at 5:45 every morning until there was a fire in the little house on the alley. The street was blocked and he had to detour around. He called me as soon as he found a phone. Of course I was fine and sheltering the young couple who escaped the house an hour earlier.
A few years later he told me to apply at the union office for a part time temp bookkeeping job. I got the job and meet some very nice people.
When Dad retired he had a pension from the Union and Social Security. The Steelworkers pension continued 16 years past his death until Mom passed.
I will always support unions.
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