Having grown up in a strong union family, let me give you some insight. Young union workers want more money. Middle aged union workers want more medical benefits. Older union workers want more retirement. In a unionized company, the union will protect shirkers. The company then finds it virtually impossible to fire a troublemaker. This emboldens the troublemakers. Everything becomes a contest between management and the workers. The rest of the Democrat base has no sympathy whatever for the union employees. So the private sector union employees, while supporting the Democrat party, are a casual afterthought to the Democrats. The union comes to represent itself and not the employees. The factory that my Dad worked at recently closed. There was absolutely no concern from the community or the Democrat Governor. If anything, the community was glad that the factory was gone. There are virtually no private sector union jobs left in this state. It’s not a Right To Work state, either. It has been the Democrats who killed the good paying private sector union jobs. And the state has another Democrat Governor.
Last year, I listened to some retired autoworkers tell stories of what they were able to get away with at GM(not work). It was amazing, they seemed proud of it. I walked away thinking I would have been ashamed of it.
I believe if you went to any union company of 2k employees....and you asked management if they had a list of people who need to be terminated, they’d mostly smile and say yes. Then they’d produce a list of fifty people of the 2k who are making production and stability a daily problem....from alcohol and drug abuse, to full-scale incompetence.
The problem here is that the fifty people who need to be dismissed...are making life miserable for both the company and the remaining employees. The unions absolutely refuse to grasp this and keep the fifty as part of the union to show that they will protect you. Even after one of the fifty causes you to lose your leg in a company accident....they will still protect the fifty.
If you had to pick one serious fault of unions today, it’s simply this protection-game. It’s not benefiting anyone.