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Apparently for some top union officials, as for most rich people, you can never be rich enough. Unfortunately, living like a corporate executive and pursuing funny-money stock deals like a corporate executive can’t be divorced from the other things union leaders do. Officials this removed from their members’ daily lives are all the more likely, at the bargaining table, to see things the way their corporate counterparts do.
As one member mad about ULLICO wrote on a Carpenters bulletin board, "These people wouldn't know a worker unless they tipped one."