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21. I am 73 years old and retired from my Union

job 21 years ago with benefits. I volunteered to pay a reduce dues that they didn't require me to. Like $3.00/month.
They just increase my dental to 4 cleanings per year, it was 2. Also I now get 2 free pair of eyeglasses per year. I get a free lawyer, still.
Because of my union, while I was working I got a free college education at a State University. My only cost was for books.
I was fired 3 times. Two of those times they got me my job back before I could get out of the door, the third time it was 3 days later with full pay.
The first year there, I was working with an older guy that had just got his 18 year old daughter a job there. One day she came up crying because the new foreman told her she had to give him oral sex or he would put her on the tire job. He call over the union and 2 hours later the whole plant walked out on a wildcat strike that lasted 3 days. That foreman was fired to get us back, all 3,000 of us.
Yep the union was not perfect, I had some arguments with them, but I always had a contract on me and they went by the contract.
I'm a big backer of the UAW. I can't speak for other union, especially POAs.