I’ve never seen a union put effort into helping workers.
I have definitely seen unions put a lot of effort into helping the union.
> I’ve never seen a union put effort into helping workers. <
Back in the 1930s unions were critical to the well-being of workers. They insisted on safety rules and on due process. You couldn’t fire a senior millwright just because the boss’s snotty nephew wanted the job.
But by the 1960s the pendulum had swung too far the other way. Unions had morphed from being protectors of the workers to just another layer of company bureaucracy.
Side note: My grandfather worked in one of Frick’s coal mines. He had stories about how horrible the management treated workers. Safety equipment? Forget about it. Get injured on the job, and get fired the next day (that actually happened to my grandfather). Frick had no use for injured workers. So out you go.
Fast forward 70 years. I worked for a time in a union steel mill. Idiotic union regulations and demands killed that mill. It’s gone now, an empty lot.
Helping the worker is just the carrot unions dangle to get themselves installed. Helping themselves to the workers’ wages (dues) is what it’s all about. Union management live really well, and the money pipeline to Democrat campaign coffers insures the protection they need for their nefarious activities.