Agreed, completely. I support unions, but I see the best way forward to both increase equality and reduce corporate corruption is the Mondragon model of worker-

Agreed, completely. I support unions, but I see the best way forward to both increase equality and reduce corporate corruption is the Mondragon model of worker-owned cooperative federations. Unions are not an advance in this direction at all, merely a check on corporate ownership. It's better than nothing, but it's not the end-all to worker protections.