Beg to differ. Being reasonable means just that.
It means that, like the rest of us, union members should not be entitled to:
1) Effective tenureship by virtue of "bumping rights". If a senior member's position is terminated, he/she is entitled to take any equal or lesser job for whom he/she is qualified...at the same pay. This is how a boiler engineer earning $65,000 gets a job as a receptionist answering telephones...for $65,000 a year, and the young guy/girl earning $28,000 gets the boot.
2) Protection from disciplinary action by restrictive and inefficient "rights" that include endless appeals, arbitrations and other red tape in the system (ironic, no?)
3) Guaranteed annual pay increases according to tenure. (Merit is a bad word?)
4) 10 sick days a year, no rhyme or reason. If you have any left over, but is healthy as a horse, take 'em anyway!.
5) No overtime, or overtime at premium rates.
6) No contract workers allowed to ease the workload. Any contract workers who are employed for more than 29 days automatically become full fledged members with all the rights and privileges thereof.
and the featherbedding goes on and on.....
NOW flame away.....
p.s. I'm not against unions per se. It's just that isolated examples of extreme abuse ruin it for the many...