I would like to hear there side of the story Mr Cantrell...some how i think it will differ from your side..:) I am the third generation of union iron workers...I wouldn't have it any other way...yes i do agree there are people we employee that i wouldn't give the time of day and we do carry them through out there careers...but over all like i said the majority of us a very very good at what we do...at this time we are picketing a job being done "non union " and it is a joke to watch them work...if any of you think that non union can do better then union you are kidding your selves...unions mean in construction that you do one particular job and that is it...for generation after generation ..year in and year out....we are very very good at what we do when you specialize in one thing like that...I'm an iron worker..not a carpenter not a plumber not a labor not an electrician...but you talk steel...welding...structual erection...reinforcement rods...floor decking ..you name it...our crews will beat out any ...and i mean any non union outfit that does the same work....only because we do it ..and only it for all our lives...non union construction one day you are hanging steel and the next you are sweeping floors...point being..the job gets done faster and more cost saving...not to mention safer...the job we are picketing now is a four story building ..very simple construction...they are there three weeks already and looks like they just started the other day...I'm certain they will be way behind schedule and we "union guys" will have to take it over and bail them out as we have been done many times before...as for all the people who say they would rather buy products over seas because they are cheaper ..and these company's go over seas for cheaper labor(which buy the way is done only because of greed)...all you are doing is destroying the country you live in and not supporting it...remember wal-mart makes most of there products in China...at labor cost of less then 50 cents an hour...how can we even compete with such a thing...like i said...keep saving your money and buy products over seas and we will be a country with NO JOBS...and I"m sure I will come on this site and hear you morons saying..."its because of the unions"...one more thing for all you union bashers...the fact is that "unions are only 13 percent of the work force in this country...tell me again how much unions are the fault of all the problems..you know back in the day the south didn't want to give up there slaves...i wonder why that was ...do you think it was because they were cheap labor off the backs of hard working people..the way i look at it doesn't seem the south has changed there way of thinking...:)