Union workers who hate unions. I don't get it.

[union_maid]

9. Happens all the time

A woman I work with owes her nice lifestyle to a union. Her husband is on a disability pension. Union pension. Plus he gets SSD. Hardly any of that is subject to income tax. The are able to live very well, take lovely vacations and own a nice variety of "toys" due to that income. She's also in our union. Although, due to her husband's union medical benefits, she doesn't need ours, she gets the opt-out payment our union negotiates each contract. The most successful of her offspring is doing well because he got into an electricians' union. In that case, the union is the entire career path, not the individual job. She encouraged him in this. Of course there was some relative who helped him get in and to get started. She was pretty happy about the whole thing, because a career direction for him wasn't so clear before this worked out for him.

She hates unions. She doesn't really have a reason, but she hates them. She's also one of a tiny handful of people in our office who votes Republican. When she bothers to vote, which is not often, I don't think.