In Europe you have multiple unions for an employer, and employees pick between them - so they compete on price and what they offer. In the US you are forced in

In Europe you have multiple unions for an employer, and employees pick between them - so they compete on price and what they offer. In the US you are forced into a single union for an employer. In Europe the union is for the employees, they have lots of employees from a wide variety of places, and they offer them services. In the US the union is for the employer - they stand in between the employee and the employer and purport to decide what's best for the employee.