In hard times, union hardball has no traction:

With one of its two elementary schools crippled by a stalled construction project, the school board of River Forest Elementary School District 90 voted this morning to cancel a union contract and bring in a non-union company to finish the job.

Look. The working man is not just the union member, who in this case is killing jobs for himself and his brothers and sisters. When will they ever learn?

Thing is, this school board depends not a whit on labor money.