I was stunned when I read this post at my pal Grizzly Mama's place!  This hit me on a number of levels!  The first one that shocked me was the "union" reference!  As I've posted often in the past [check the archives, which will remain there until someone teaches me how to import them!],  my dad was totally utterly a union kinda guy.  He wouldn't let us buy Fritos (non-union) and he refused to allow Coors beer (he was a beer drinker from Colorado!) in the house, because they were non-union corporations!  I argued until I was blue in the face that unions had outlived their usefulness, only to be told "we would have nothing without the union"!  Bull Puckey!  My dad worked 18 hour days!  It was NOT the union, but his HARD WORK that made sure we had everything we could ask for! 

Now my brother is a high-up in his union, and for some odd reason he cannot answer me when I ask, "How do you feel when you're working your fanny off, which I know you do because you were raised with the same work ethic as me, yet the lazya$$ SOB next to you is getting the same pay?"  So when I saw this, I was totally appalled,

"The union in question is Carpenter's Union Local 515. The job site is Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. The union gave this Journeyman relative of mine (with over a decade of experience in construction) the reason for his abrupt dimissal. It was that he was not productive enough. My relative tried to explain that quite a bit of his time is spent in fixing the mistakes of the illegals on the job."

When you have unions so totally invested in one party, i.e., the Democrat party, this sort of thing is bound to happen!  What gives me a glimmer of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is that I know most union folks are as conservative as my parents, and as my family oriented brother.  It also tells me that the Democrat party is like a boat without a rudder.  It's losing black Christians right and left with their stance on gay marriage, and now it will begin to lose union members due to their stance on illegal immigrants.  It does my conservative heart good!  Bring on the '06 elections!