I’ve never been a union member but I’ve worked and lived around them.
Imo, labor unions, by design, are incapable of thinking beyond the bottom of their own bellies. Labor unions price themselves out of the market on a regular basis and can’t figure out why they’re decaying in membership.
Don’t ever expect rational reasoning from a labor union’s leadership or rank and file.
You might want to narrow your brush a bit, as in fact there is a spectrum of union members just as everything else. For example, some people have to belong to the union in order to get a job, whether they really like it or not. Wisconsin teachers were in that situation until Gov. Walker’s reforms were finally allowed to go into effect which ended the practice of closed shops in the teachers union. Once they were given a choice about whether to pay union dues or not, over half of WI teachers quit the union. That’s pretty rational thinking in my book.
I’m not making this up:
http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2015/07/weac-membership-continues-decline-blogger-says/