[Hoot Gibson]

in the private sector if you are not union you take what they give you if you are union you get to negotiate your wage and benefits instead of the corporations getting 75% of the pie in a union they get 50% that's why they don't like a third party

What kind of wages and benefits have you ever personally negotiated for yourself? If your answer is something other than "never," then I doubt that you have done anything but cast an up or down vote for a contract that somebody else negotiated on your behalf. I believe that you have claimed to be a former UMWA miner, so putting all your eggs in a union basket seems to have failed in your case. Mining companies that employ union labor in eastern Kentucky cannot compete. The profit margins and most of the coal seams are simply too thin.