Good on ya. Never been a union stooge; never will be.
My attitude is this: When I go to work, I work for me; for the interests and priorities that I choose. I agree to be an employee at any given firm only to the extent that the arrangement enables that in an arrangement of substantially equal, mutual benefit to me and to the employer.
In this arrangement, I govern to maintain the balance of interests and benefits. If my employer should improperly mitigate my governance, they would be compelled to modify that situation favorably, or thereupon cease to be my employer.
I know who — and Whose — I am, and those are my non-negotiable terms.
I think I was in the union a total of six months, but by the time I went to them for help, CFIDS was past the point of no return.
Shortly after I quit the union, I had to also quit work.
Ironically, I’ve lived in right-to-work states most of my working life, and I’ve really never seen the need for unions. They may have been necessary 100 years ago, but today, they are filled with nothing but bullies. I experienced that first hand.