If BGE chooses to be non-union, that is their choice. Apperently BGE must treat their people ok and give them pretty good benifiets. What gets my ass is their spokesman saying that a union contract would handcuff them-and have negative impact on their customers- how would this happen? I have been on both sides of the fence. My union requires a lot out of me, but in return I get good pay and benifiets. When i think of these spokespersons for all these companies that do not like unions- the handcuffs are on the employees, not the company. Most trade unions in the private sector have given up some pay and benifiets in the economy so that their employers can stay in business, the trade unions are joined at the hip with the employers. The govt emplyee unions are the ones giving trade unions on whole a bad image in not sharing the pain of a bad economy. We are all doing with less, the govt employees want more. People see this and they think all unions are the same.