Yes I can honestly say that my wages/benefits are not inflated by the union's extortions.
The union was the recognised bargaining entity when I started working where I work, the only choice I had was to be a part of that process or not.
Dealing with the management staff where I work as the union unit president has clearly showed me why unions came to be, if it weren't for the work of the people in our union unit our employee's wages/benefits would be severely deflated by management's extortions.
“if it weren’t for the work of the people in our union unit our employee’s wages/benefits would be severely deflated by management’s extortions.”
In a free-market economy, if the business pays an employee less, then that must be because that employee is worth less. That employee can move on to greener pasture, assuming that the employee is worth more elsewhere. If he is not worth more elsewhere, why would he expect to more in his current employment? Do you disagree?
Unions have absolutely no place in a free-market and free-will economy. The only reason the unions exist is to pervert the supply of labor... in most cases, unskilled labor, aka drones. Individual rights and business rights are trampled, while the collective gets fatter and more corrupt.