Unions are good at providing collective benefits but not so good at individual ones. If you want a retirement package - something that everyone gets without re

Unions are good at providing collective benefits but not so good at individual ones. If you want a retirement package - something that everyone gets without regard to performance. Or vacation days. Unions are the way to go. If you want a raise... this is an unpolitic opinion but unions are not so good at that. They will try to give everyone a raise. This leaves almost everyone unhappy because almost everyone feels they're doing a good job and then slacker they work with is a layabout who should be happy they're not getting fired. And everyone intuitively understands that there's a limited pot of money for salaries - it's a zero sum game. In truth retirement benefits aren't really much different but they aren't viewed that way. Same with vacation.