For those of you fortunate enough to have a job in this economy - have you looked at your pay stub recently? I looked at mine the other day - overtime after an eight-hour day, accumulating sick leave, medical insurance - all of those things can be easy to take for granted. I don't work for a union shop, but what I just listed, along with the safe working conditions I work in, are all brought to me (and you) by unions. The stories of the sacrifices working men and women made during the turn of the 20th century are legion - thousands of people were literally killed or maimed so that their descendants - us - can have a decent life as well as a decent job.
