Let me say this. First off, I'm not pro or con union. I've pretty much been self employed my whole life. I worked for my parents,growing up, in a ma-pa beer and wine carry-out. When the beer drivers went out on strike, we honored their line's, and went out of town to pick up our beer. This was in the '60's. Early '70's, the beer distributers in all the sorrounding area's, the drivers went on stike. So to stay in business, my dad and I had to cross picket lines, and pick up beer. Our building got fire bombed. Luckily, just an old wooden overhead door got tourched.Jump up to just a couple of years ago,2003 or 2004. The drivers for the Budweiser distributers were on stike. Now it's been over 20 years since I was in the beer business, so it really doesn't affect me what they do. BUT, the Teamsters, who drive the semi's from the brewery in Columbus, crossed the picket lines, to deliver into the warehouse. Seems to me, if the Longshoreman, that worked the docks, that unload all the imported stuff, had any stone's, they could strike, have a work slow down, something. But, me thinks, their makeing so much money, they don't care what's happening to the rest of their union brothers in this country, or to the rest of the country itself. We keep trying peace, it usually doesn't work!! Remember (12/7/41)--(9/11/01) gypsyman