The good guy’s are going to have to run for union leadership and to learn to brave the crapstorms and even arm themselves for the threats that will be levied against them. Much of the upper management and leaderships of these unions are folks who’ve never carried a pick ax or driven a truck but they are mobsters who employ goons when they need to. It will take out and out war to uproot these vipers!
It should be a rule that management needs to come from the ranks. They’d know what they are doing and would be less likely to crap on the brethren, IMO.
It sounds like the membership is but a dues paying tool for a political machine. Oh, come to think of it, that’s what taxpayers are as Obama sends money off here and there, placing us into further debt servitude.
Once a union is formed it’s against the ‘rules’ for members to go to a different union or create a more perfect union. This aspect convinced me long ago that it wasn’t about the members. Keeping options open keeps a union honest...
Just found this. THought you might be interested. The global/international aspect...
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/workingpapers/2006/wp21106.pdf