I've also heard of the reverse happening. Someone doing a job and making the buisness money. Not willing to pay said worker or employee what they think they are worth or a bit more than they are now. Employee goes elsewhere. Company doesn't do so well.

I'm not anti union - but how can you justify an avg. salary of 144k? Thats around 100k less than the avg. american.
Also, I make more per hour that a friend of mine. We work at the same plant, same company, different work area and division and different Union. He take more, a lot more, home every year. Of course he's working, till recently, almost 7 days a week and sometime 12 hour days.
There was a Dilbert comic, where a maintnence guy is roaming the halls. One of the managment or secertaries says to him, 'I thought your work hours were over, by now.' He replies, 'I'm working Overtime'. She says, "what's that.' He pulls out some charts and pointing to the charts, says something like,'When I work over my regular work hours, may pay rate is exponentially increased over the aloted time" or something like that. There are wisps of steam comeing out her ears. The last frame of the comic, is the maintenance guy leaning back in a chair, saying, 'I love office trolling.'

Tom