while this isn't without merit, I consistently see that individual workers are much more concious of quality of their work and safety/reliability of the end use

while this isn't without merit, I consistently see that individual workers are much more concious of quality of their work and safety/reliability of the end user than the management is. We've had many industrial accidents, from Bhopal's disaster to Boeing Max, thousands of people died, and all of them were caused by management meddling where they shouldn't. none of them were caused by unions