Good English!
ITBeenThereDoneThat,
Slightly overstated, but very well said. The rest of you pay attention. Try using full, well formed sentences and run your work through a spell checker. You Unix/Linux folks, cut/paste into:
cat | spell
The words that come out of the pipe are misspelled.
Regarding paying union dues, I'm a faily well paid W2 contractor. My contracting firm grabs a whole lot more from the client than a union ever would. Talk about leeches. My goal now is to go direct.