While settlement attorneys may tell you they know how you feel, I have worked in your shoes.  Before I practiced law, I carried 4 union cards, UAW Local 974, Union Food and Commercial Workers Local 536, Laborers International Union Local 165, and Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees Union Lodge 2618.   I worked for years in industrial manufacturing, heavy construction and as a section "Gandy Dancer" on the railroads. I don't have to imagine how you feel, I lived it.