Pro-union demonstrators show signs to passing drivers outside the Comfort Suites in Urbana, Ill., Thursday. About 30 Democratic members of the Indiana House of Representatives are staying at the hotel after fleeing Indianapolis this week to avoid voting on labor- and education-related legislation they oppose. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

LastDemoInIdaho: What bothers me a bit more is the well-oiled, orchestrated effort by GOP governors and legislators (with the bucks from various billionaires available as needed) to finally kill sick and dormant labor unions. Our country’s middle class was built on effective labor unions that made sure my father’s family (and probably many of your families as well) could survive and grow. I was the first in my family to attend a university. Without a solid union job behind our family, I am sure I would have spent my adult life laboring in the same oil refinery as my father and uncles and cousins.

Question: Last Demo goes on to wonder why Republicans and many young people are so anti-union. Has a union made your life or the life of your family better?

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