Unemployment at all time highs yet Shaws Union employees on strike

I guess our frindly Union reps are still in bed as they don't roll out of bed till 12:00 or so.

Or maybe they support OP's assesment

I just noticed a typo, my health care contribution went up to 20% from 15%

A 20% increase is nothing compared to the quadrupling of our contributions. Yes I said QUADRUPLING. Would you agree to go from $30 a week to $135 a week for a reduced level of coverage? That contribution rate is what shaw's is charging the scabs.
If we (the unions) cave in to corporate greed you realize that it rolls downhill and everyone suffers by having to pay more. The unions help set the standards that non union companies have to try to compare to.
We are not greedy animals. We are human beings that deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Supervalu (owner of shaw's) is using this to set a case precedent on how to deal with unions. I would rather take a job shoveling $hit that to go back under the current conditions being treated like $hit.
You should research what unions are about before you go trashing them. Do you have weekends off? Do you have a 40 hour workweek? Do you get LABOR DAY as a paid holiday? You're welcome.

You union schmucks are all the same...with the high and mighty holier
than thou preaching attitude....40 hour work week? Oh thank you
so so much...and thanks right back at you! You've done a wonderful
job destroying the American automobile industry, remember the American steel industry? Gone! Nice work unions! Keep up the good work! Friggin morons.

In times of high unemployment, all workers are treated worse. The cost of labor is always too high and there is a perpetual struggle against the value of labor.

You think that because there is high unemployment, the people who have jobs should be treated like shit? You blame the unions for destroying american jobs, but hold a special place in your heart for the bankers and the wall street wizards?

Should nurses work seventy hour weeks because corporate owned, for profit hospitals refuse to hire additional staff? If ten nurses work 70 hour weeks, that means they working a surplus of 210 total hours. Those extra hours could be jobs for other people. How many of these nurses will burn out and quit from working too many hours for too many years, so that the shareholders can get their dividends?