The union often gets a bad press, and there are good reasons for this.
It was not clear where the union would get the remainder of the $46 million if the decision stood.
In return, they said, the union got a 16.5 percent raise over four years from a weekly base pay of $804.
Those unions have got so much money they don't know where to put it.
For now, the unions are not getting too much support from outside experts.
Every other union got a third raise for their people, 33 percent over the last 10 years.
We are going to go and hear what the other unions have got to say.
"We would be foolish to go where the union and management do not get along."
But he says the unions have gotten things wrong, too.
If the union got him a job he would be protected by a contract for the first time.