[TheRealVille]

Like I said, you don't understand the fight that transpired and the process that generated the world's finest craftsmen. I heard this very same argument in Texas in the early to mid 70's. BA's and union officials, stewards, heck, everybody said that going 'right to work' would totally kill the union. Well, Brown and Root came and sort of went. And unions contiued to flourish and are still the roosters of their field. Union's life blood isn't contracts and political alliances that prohibit right to work laws, it's their level of expertise, and ability to produce the best product.

It amazes me to listen to you go on and on about what you think is important. Where change applies to matters dealing with social justice, you're all about it, bring on the gay and lesbian rights legislation and bring on ObamaCare, give everything to everybody in the form of government entitlements, women should be able to choose what to do with their own bodies, even murder their babies for the sake of convenience, and with government funding, which means I have to help pay for these hellish acts of slaughter. But, you're not about to take any backwater when it comes to any changes on the labor scene. That's where you stand firm in drawing a line in the sand. You can't have it both ways, that's the nature of the fight that I think you have yet to rise to a level of understanding on, though you do participate. Conservatives resist this idea of wholesale liberal change just to please those who are not disciplined enough to live by our society's long accepted standards of work and morality. Liberals want to keep adding more and more pollutants to the recipie until it is no longer recogizable, while calling those who offer wise council small minded and passe.

Texas is one of the biggest non union working states that there is. Union construction workers can hardly find a job there. Most travel out of TX, to non right to work states. Wages are low for construction workers. Go ask TX and LA union workers how they are fairing since their states went right to work. BTW, I think everybody should have the right to work non union, just not on union jobs.




Speaking of "kind of came and went Brown and Root", they are now the biggest non union contractor, and do work all over the US.

KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) is an American engineering, construction and private military contracting company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, headquartered in Houston. The company also has large offices in Arlington, Birmingham, Newark, Delaware and Leatherhead, UK. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser's engineering subsidiary, The M. W. Kellogg Co., was merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR and its predecessors have received many contracts with the United States military including during World War II, the Vietnam War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
KBR is the largest non-union construction company in the United States.[2] The company's corporate offices are in the KBR Tower in Downtown Houston.[3][4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBR_(company)