Comment: Who gave you that idea?

"i've been doing a half ass job for 25 years, i deserve to do so until i retire" that i took exception to.

I said seniority and experience. Sticking with a company through the good times and bad used to make you "like family." Now, it does not matter. Experience meant you knew how to run things the way that company ran it, now they are willing to train newbies to cut expenses this quarter. This is not a defense of Unions, it is the reality of right to work. There was a time that you only got "seniority" because you did a good job, unions screwed up that side of the equation. Right to work does not fix that, it just screws up the other side.