Along with being a former teamster, I worked in many union Machine shop/manufacturing facilities rebuilding and repairing machine tool equipment. So I have seen the crap that unions bring.
The "you were not a member long enough to have an opinion" aurgument, is really weak. Besides I have two more years than you do, family experience means nothing.
Unions of yesterday were needed, today they do NOTHING besides take the workers money and stifle business. In a union environment, the workers are pitted against management and it tends to create a hostile work environment for all. Workers that would be fired in a non-union shop are not fired because the union protects them. Just look at Ford, GM, and Rolls Royce in Mt. Vernon.