If we are doing u ion stories I’ve got one. In 1970, I sat out year to make money for college. I got a job at a local auto parts plant my dad and uncle worked at in management. After my 60-day probationary period the shop steward came to sign me up for the union. During our discussion he let it be known I would be voting no on the upcoming contract proposal. I casually mentioned I would want to read it first then decide how to vote. He informed that wasn’t how it was done. I told him I wouldn’t vote for anything I hadn’t read, for or against. He took the union sign up form back and informed me they didn’t people like me in the union.
Yeah...they don’t want thinkers. My father in-law was a UAW member, I’d see the union newsletters he’d bring home. They practically declared the company to be evil and the managers like demons, where it’s your duty to push back on anything and everything for the goal of never being ‘exploited’. I can’t imagine having that type of mentality pumped into me for 30 years.