Oh poor Richard, 2-3k dues for a 6 figure income plus benefits as the highest paid non-management employee at municipal waste services! it was a good gig while it lasted! right Richard? It allows you a nice fat retired life! 

And good for you! I would never say that you didn't do a good job and didn't deserve every bit of it, but what get's me is that you'd never once acknowledge that it was only pure flyshit luck that you were so blessed! It's only everybody else that's not deserving of their pay and benefits? Right Richard?

and since you're nicely retired, you have plenty of time to educate yourself about the history  of the anti-union movement in America and how it's financed, and ponder how you might have fared in this more common reality.