Brian it is idiots like you that do not know what you are talking about when it comes to UNIONS. Your boss pays you too much!! These picketers have the right to be here in Wisconsin, their union represents Wisconsin Carpenters as well, they are welcome here so please do not try and be the bully and tell them what to do.

Christine- I know exactly what I'm talking about. It is called a competitive bidding process and the carpenter's union doesn't like that the bid that was accepted was from a company that is not unionized. It doesn't take a rocket scientist tofigure out that if any company that bidded in most cases the bid was higher because of higher employee costs.

The second scenario is that they want to bully the employees of that company to join their union. But they don't have a right o block the site, or stop traffic. Either way, they have no sympathy from me and seeing as they hav the time to picket, maybe they might want to reassess their loyalty to the union because their time would be better spent working and collecting a pay check. Hmmm... who is the idiot?

Christine, calling Brian an idiot only makes the name-calling boomerang on you. Very silly debate tactic.

BTW, Brian is a business owner, and pays himself. "your boss pays you too much!!"?? Wht does that even mean? :)

Third, how is Brian's expression of an opinion "being a bully and telling them what to do?" LOL! Sounds like you're trying to be one, quite frankly. Relaaaaaaax.

Just to start trouble huh?

Exactly... I drive by there daily and they look like idiots standing there chatting among themselves all bundled up with their cheap signs. Actions like this are highly responsible for my shift from a Democrat to Republican political alignment in the last few years. I would say I have gravitated from being mildly to heavily anti-union in that same span. I am an independent voter... but the Democrats and far left are really irritating me more than the right wingers traditionally did...

It's not the Nuns they protest, and besides you ask any of the sisters there, and they will tell you that the picketers are right in standing up for their rights.

I did ask two nuns and they wouldn't speak about it.

Now you're just making stuff up. ;)

Aren't soldiers supposed to do what they are told by officers? Does that make them "dumb mules" as well?

Melissa Warner- Wow!!! Equating a soldier who defended your freedom to speak like an idiot to a greedy union woker picketing nuns. That is a new low.

Since when are you paying for that project Johnny Blade??

Fran Martin- If I may correct you, it was a 1 percenter that implemented the 40 hour work week (Henry Ford), not the unions. Child labor was basically abolished by Franklin D. Roosevelt so that jobs would be opened up to adults following the Great Depression under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and OSHA was formed and signed into law by Richard Nixon and a Democratic Congress at the behest of many organizations, not just unions. As far as the robust middle class, that leaves a lot of room for debate.

I'm sorry Fran, but these are not our father's unions. Today they do little to promote solidarity for younger members, have over-inflated the value of their jobs and have chased factories to move overseas.

We say full well the past two years that union leaders care only of themselves. Whether it be the schools, or Hostess or the many factories that have left, the unions have destroyed their image as being the go between for the little guy/gal.

And remember Fran, it is still the 1% that employ these unions so stop crapping on someone just because they are successful.

Voice of reason- For the record, I never called them "dumb mules." Secondly, Henry Ford was not a politician. With no union involved, as owner and founder, he came up with the current 40 hour work week and the two day weekend as a way for better production by well-rested employees. Let's be logical on why they are there. If I'm wrong, there is no law for them to explain themselves, unless of course, they are breaking one (which I never claimed).

You tell me not to generalize all unions or judge something or someone you don't know jack about, yet you do the same. This isn't my buddies opinion; it is mine. And yes, I have some knowledge of unions as I was a union leader in the mid 80's for six years. My father was a national secretary for one of the largest trade unions in his day. I also have been on the other side of the table, involved in negotiations with six large unions, for two contracts each, as well as a company-union liason for six years. These are not talking points from the extreme left, so who is clueless now?

Brian, I'm glad you negotiated for RUSD and didn't completely roll over to the unions, given the constraints placed upon you, which were many!