Submitted by Laura Childs, Oct 31, 2006 10:09

Great article, Mr. Gitell. Thank you.

Something very small in the article jumped out at me: the UAW recruiting Health Care Workers. I had not heard of that but it does not surprise me. It was an "ah-hah" experience.

My husband is from Grand Rapids, MI. When we drive back for Thanksgiving, weddings, reunions I am struck by the number of huge highway billboards for health care services (hospitals, prenatal, cancer prevention, smoking secession) in western Michigan.

"Are the people in Michigan unhealthy?" I asked my husband just this last June as we were driving through western Michigan.

I don't know why health care would be so big in western Michigan but the UAW's plan to recruit health care workers seems predictable now. After all, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. By that I mean, health care workers ought to be careful; big unions will do for them like they did for autoworkers: destroy their jobs. And the rest of the country has lots of hospitals, health care centers and research facilities in Right To Work states.

And I personally would not like to be cared for by a union doctor or a union nurse. They're not thinking of me. I would be suspicious that they were "talking strike and sick slow downs" in the nurses lounge.

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