The Raleigh NC Westinghouse plant was the first non-Union plant in the country. Also they paid the same wages that the northern plants got. They were smart, when the union started sniffing around in the 70’s nobody down south wanted any part of it. Why, hell we make as much as you guys and have no due’s. Go back home. The second company that came south was IBM. Everyone wanted a job at Westinghouse or IBM as they paid more then anyone in the state
The unions, most anyways, in the last 20+ years have been their own worse enemies, don't care at all about the members, they're just a side of beef to be used. The only ones now with any power are the public ones because they donate the most to the demonrat party but that party is coming to an end soon. The teachers are just the mostest obnoxious. 30 years ago here the pos teachers onion (onion because it stinks) pushed and got a 40% all at once pay raise for them with the bs that no more kids would dropout and all would graduate with big averages. Made the assholes the highest paid assholes in the country and things got even worse. Today its the worst or 2nd worst school district in the country. Of course the onion president adam urscamski got a nice raise too from it. Imagine a 40% increase in monthly blackmail. Oops, there I go again, monthly dues.