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	Name:	Lifer -
	Subject:	So prove it!!
	Date:	12/12/2012 4:20:45 PM

Offer up ONE legitimate case. I will document a dozen non-union folks injured, or killed, by a union thug for every ONE union member that have been injured or killed due to their association with the union. Union thugs are much more likely to commit violence against a "scab" than vice-versa.

I have a brother-in-law who belonged to the Ohio National Guard unit that was dispatched to Kent State. To hear that story from an eye witness is to realize you never heard the story before. The readers digest condensed version is that the entire unit was on edge because they had been patrolling and escorting 'scab' truckers on the roads and highways of Ohio for days prior to being sent to Kent State campus. There was teamsters strike in full swing at the time. The union thugs had been having a blast taking pot shots at them. None were actually injured, but being shot at with no way to defend oneself is not very good for the nerves.

As Martini already stated, unions have long outlived their usefulness. This is from someone who grew up in a union household. My Father was even elected president of his local several years running, only resigning to take a management position. I think he was psychic at times because we used to talk politics in my youth and he stated then that teachers unions would be downfall of this country. That was in the early 80's. He was dead on.