Re: There is only one way for employees to have di

This is not a discussion that I want to belabor either. I'm hardly knowledgable about all the nuances and legalities.
I'm well aware of the great benefits that the unions brought to the workers; I'm also aware of the teribble excesses and corruption within SOME unions.
In referring to 'dead wood that can't be fired', I was taliking about the gummint, of which I have some years of experience. What happens in reality is that the documentation and paperwork is just too onerous, so the non-performing employee is shunted around and ignored- at taxpayer expense.
I've been fired more than once by a malicious or capricious boss, or decided that the benefits or pay or working conditions sucked. So I went and got another job.
I always figured that't what grownups have to do.
In referring to 'having to get things done' I recall the times when I couldn't touch a piece of equipment until a union guy came in to touch it. Pure nonsense. Let us not forget the rules that forced the railroads to work a full crew on deisel trains when they were not needed. In many ways, the unions cut their own throats and the railroads' with parasitic nonsense like that.
Also I'm talking about a very small tourist operation (less than 100 employees) that would probably go under if it had to deal with a union.