“We don’t have a laissez-faire free market economy do we - that is the fatal flaw. There is way too much totalitarianism if not that crony capitalism. The management philsophy I work under is not what you see in Gault’s Gultch, no, it’s more like what you would hear from Wesley Mouch. And unions are not to blame for that.”
Granted that the business is corrupt, but why are you working for them? You (and other workers) could leave such a corrupt environment(aka exercising your choice). Most likely situation is that you(not personally, but union workers in general) are so ingrained in the corruption that they have become part of the problem itself (along with the cronies).
I’m trading time for money.
The union employees here are not “so ingrained in the corruption that they have become part of the problem itself”. The staff employees where I work get treated worse than the union employees!