Forum Post: From Nation of Change - why we don't need unions

Don Blanken­ship, For­mer Massey En­ergy CEO
West Vir­ginia in­ves­ti­ga­tors found Massey man­age­ment di­rectly to blame for the 2010 blast that left 29 min­ers dead at the com­pany's Upper Big Branch coal mine. Massey, the re­port charged, had nur­tured a "cul­ture bent on pro­duc­tion at the ex­pense of safety." That cul­ture paid off hand­somely for Blanken­ship. He pock­eted $38.2 mil­lion from 2007 through 2009, after rak­ing in $34 mil­lion in 2005, and re­tired with a $5.7-mil­lion pen­sion and $12 mil­lion in sev­er­ance.

I have heard that there has never been a major mine disaster ( or one of this magnitude ) in a union mine.

Can anyone confirm this or expand on this?