Chalk and Cheese. Lyle when you and never actually seen a bean let alone flicked one Beanflicker refer to Unions that is not the same as Unions in Europe and particularly not the UK. Yeah you get some two faced money grabbing bastards within some Unions but it is nothing like the rampant bullying and corruption on your side of the pond. At the end of the day in the U.S.A the bottom line seems to be the dollar, profit, business, money is King. You invented the litigious society that is now being foisted on everyone else. Nobody sued anyone until American lawyers saw dollar signs in workplace accidents. Unions are supposed to be there to stop that happening in the first place. You may well be a good employer and I have no reason to believe otherwise, but there are plenty of Bosses who are happy to exploit people and unions are there to stop that happening. The Hilarious thing is that the communist bogeyman that you have invented to pile all your nations sins on like some old Hebrew scapegoat is China. A country where American corporations are only to happy to exploit the lack of unions and pay workers a pittance to slave away in terrible conditions, often to the detriment of their health all to preserve a bigger profit margin back home. You couldn't make it up.