I would agree that unions, especially the big ones aren't worth anything. one year getting in an out of college was a major pain due to the fact the union that the city buss drivers was in was having some mass strike, for something that had nothing to do with the city bus. But they still couldn't drive the busses up to the actual school but only to a spot 1/4 mile away. I would of loved to strangle the union bosses and make him walk that route twice a day in a Minnesota winter. all they would of had to of done is make that "bad management" walk the same path us students who had no involvement at all in the issue the strike was actually about had to do because of their arrogance and I bet they would of given in much sooner. It got to the point the school itself was paying a taxi company to shuttle students between the school and the city buss stop so they wouldn't lose their students.

Another time when I was working for a company, and in one of those unions, I had believed their lies and so I joined their ranks then one day an accident happened. I was not at fault nor was it anything big turns out all that happened was some paint got scratched off, and it was a very minor repair yet I didn't report it right away as up to that point they where more concerned about getting the guest from point a to point b, so I figured it could wait. the person who was at fault was never heard from again at the , since the damage was only superficial. The person at fault I never saw after that and, even with the unions "help" I still was given a day off with out pay. And that was for the first time I had ever done anything like that. Also I had the same lack of schedule happen to me again. I was supposed to be in the group that had priory to what hours where avail during the slow months being a union full time employee. Yet I saw plenty of their seasonal help was there and working when I was given part time or less hours. Twice I got burned by a union. plus I think the original intent of a union got lost once these "unions" started to represent more then one company because no longer do they care about the worker themselves just that they can get their dues from who ever is working there.

I would agree Wal-Mart is slimy. I've had the displeasure of working for them. And was a few times put into no win situations and yelled at because I didn't win. Plus do you know what they do with schedules there? During the slower months they will just not schedule random people randomly. I was a full time employee for two years and during the summer the hours drop like crazy. It wasn't too bad for me the first year as I had a paid internship so I attributed it to that. The second time around I made sure they knew I didn't have another one lined up and I needed to keep my hours I was unofficially fired. Meaning while I was never called in and given a pink slip. For a solid month I had no days scheduled, despite my almost daily heckling them for some days to work doing something. After a while I gave up and got a job someplace else. Never did get called in for any official your done stuff.