As union membership for nurses unions grows, so does our ability to speak out.

Now more than 40 years since the prospect of membership of the European Union was first held out to Turkey,

Let me tell you, I'm a union member myself, ... I believe very strongly in unions. What my objection is to having union bosses take money out of a worker's paycheck and use it for political campaigns without permission is wrong.

We have put on this service to recognise the police, the fire brigade and the nurses in the health sector and to highlight the sterling contribution they have been making in this community. We know that many times their service goes unnoticed and so as a fraternal we have decided to highlight them,

[Mills received that promise from Newt Packer of the local carpenter's union. Other unions agreed.] The unions did not want some out-of-state contractor coming in, ... It was a great example of labor and management cooperation.

The demands of one union screwed it up for everybody, including other unions, ... I think their representative overplayed their hand and thereby cost his and other unions a significant amount of work.