Really bad analogy. A lawyer that you hired and pay for represents your interest 100%. A union rep represents union interest first and then your interest. But

Really bad analogy. A lawyer that you hired and pay for represents your interest 100%. A union rep represents union interest first and then your interest. But if union interest is at odd with your interest, you loose 100%. For example when GM hit hard times UAW agreed to firing all UAW members in California factory, the one that Tesla then bought and is operating. As you might imagine, none of the UAW members that lost their jobs wanted that outcome. But it didn't matter what those thousands of UAW members wanted. UAW agreed to that deal with GM to save jobs of UAW members in Detroit. See e.g. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/146/p2793/ https://solidarity-us.org/atc/146/p2793/