This was my experience with Unions as well. It fomented nepotism and all sorts of other "land grabs" where people would be on a wait list and their plan was to

This was my experience with Unions as well. It fomented nepotism and all sorts of other "land grabs" where people would be on a wait list and their plan was to get in, stay in and coast the rest of the time like the other senior Union members. This does not deny that they may be a necessary inefficiency in some industries and that in the past they did contribute to better labor conditions and are part of labor's patrimony, but are in many sectors of the economy anachronistic.