The Winds of Change
By: David Young

      ●05-15-2006 When I wrote this article we were just a couple of weeks into spring.  All of Mother Nature was looking gloomy but a least it was raining instead of snowing. All the seasonal birds are back for the summer. It just doesn’t seem like spring until you see you’re first robin.

     Spring and summer fishing trips are being planned. The boats are going back to there favorite lakes for opener weekend.

     A new bridge is being built across the Mississippi. The look and feel of Sauk Rapids will forever be changed. How that will turn out, only time will tell.

     Since this is an election year, we now are getting all that political advertising. The November elections should be very important to us as union members because it could mean the survival of our unions and the survival of our jobs in this country.

      The middle could slowly disappear right in front of our eyes. Every day we have to prove ourselves, working a little harder and little faster just so we can hope that Corporate America will keep our jobs in this country.

     We have to take a long hard look at the political candidates that are running for office this November. Our unions are being destroyed by the very people that we entrusted to run this country.

     The cost of living goes up every day and our wages just stay the same or decline. Our pensions are being ripped off by Corporate America. Health insurance will be out of our reach if big business gets there way.

      So when the winds of change come your way, what are we going to do? When November comes, take the time to vote for political candidates that have working union families’ values in there best interest.