text: Give me a break! These union members have it WAY easier than the rest of us and they still complain and strike.  I was in Local 5 years back and watched them bankrupt the hotel I was working at with their demanding 2 people be staffed for one persons job mentality.  It was the easiest job I ever had, but my fellow overpaid union members would cry and complain nonstop about how hard they had it!  The rest of the US has figured out that unions just drive up the cost of living for the rest of us, and found ways to curtail union power.  The states with the highest cost of living also have the highest union members per capita, which we are #1. They are also all run by democrats. Hawaii will never figure that out because of the millions of union dollars that feed the democratic party machine to keep them in power.  Hence the status quo. Tell those union bosses to kick down some of the millions they use in campaign donations to their workers.