How do union members come off as “middle class”?
They are working people, and that in itself is honorable service, but “middle class” they are not. They have no investments of which they are impassioned about preserving, they have no skin in the game of life, so to speak. They sell one thing, and that is their time. Union members bring nothing else to the table, and if they do not get their way, they withhold the time, while simultaneously doing mischief and damage to the entity that chose to entertain the notion that a workplace was being provided.
/bingo alloysteel.