The problem is that fixing their problems will be difficult and time-consuming, and require major adaptions. They don’t want to hear that. They’d rather listen to Trump’s Easter-Bunny lies, even though they know deep-down that they’re lies. And they don’t follow politics closely enough to recognize that the reason…

Maybe the problem is that, like with much of government, people don’t pay much attention to elections, aren’t well-informed, and let shitty people run the union. Unions do elect their leadership, right?

“Statistically,” they may keep the better employees and get rid of the bad ones, but they will also reduce wages, cut benefits, structure working conditions to maximize profits, etc. It’s a balance of power dynamic. When one side (management or labor) has much more power, they will tend to exploit the other side. In…