Haha! I walked off my first job at a food distribution facility around '05 because of union bullshit.
We had about 50 bays where trucks would pull in with deliveries. The lumpers would unload the trucks, we'd check to make sure everything was there and the union guys would then take the pallets and stock them throughout the warehouse.
One day we're horrendously backed up. The union guys are out smoking cigarettes and dicking around as the unloading floor is packed to capacity. The lumpers can't unload anymore because there's nowhere to put it, so the whole operation grinds to a screeching halt.
After about a half hour of doing nothing I said "fuck it." I hopped on a pallet jack and started moving the pallets over to the pallet wrapping machine to get them off the floor. The shop steward, or whatever the fuck he called himself starts losing his shit and marches upstairs to chew out management.
When the warehouse manager and the union dickwad started to chew me out about operating the equipment (which I was certified on, btw) I told them to hold on a second, walked over to a propane forklift and did a lap around the warehouse on idle while flipping the bird to every union guy in the warehouse including the shop steward
Coming from NY, I'm passionate about my hatred for unions. Everybody wonders why electricity was three or four times the national average, why property taxes are 5x the national average, why sales tax is among the highest in the country and why pretty much EVERY FUCKING THING YOU BUY is more expensive than in the rest of the country. It's the unions. It's the NYPD, FDNY, teamsters, brick layers, electricians, plumbers, LIPA workers, govt workers etc. When someone's getting paid more than they're worth, it's coming from somewhere, and it's eventually getting passed on to the end consumer.
Every once in a while a union bashing thread pops up and I know it ruffles some feathers so I generally avoid it. I'm with you though... fuck the unions. Nobody cuts the union a check so nobody thinks about the damage they do, but it can be devastating. Just look at NY.