It's a funny thing. The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it. Kinda like how when you were a teenager and you didn't appreciate your parents... even though they would give you the shirt off their back (which in many cases they practically have... but that's another gripe...). Nevertheless, all you saw was what they were doing wrong, what they weren't giving you.

The way I see it is that a union represents all of us, a collective group of employees. Just because there is 1 member as a part of 30, doesn't mean that that 1 member is equal to the 30. With the mentality that 1 = 30, I find that people are willing to sacrifice the whole for the good of themselves - the 1. This is where a union, or any other collective bargaining power, breaks down. Perhaps people need to think in terms of group rights, not my rights. As a result, selective agendas will not be forced through and people will realize how to live as a community instead of as separate individuals clamoring to get to the top....