I, for one, believe that the World needs unions, but there are lots of big problems with lots of unions - eg here in Italy, there is no union I like. One of the

I, for one, believe that the World needs unions, but there are lots of big problems with lots of unions - eg here in Italy, there is no union I like. One of the biggest problems here is that unions look too much at the short term "good" for their members, instead of the long term; often it's a mix of individual immediate self-interest, tribalism (ie: protect every member of the tribe, even when they do the bad of the tribe), and economic illiteracy/ideology that allows this to happen. From what I read, unions eg in Germany are more realistic and also get much better results. But they're often accused of being too "business friendly".