Your #4 is insightful. Functional management that treats their employees well don't tend to attract unions at all. While one can argue that some unions are qui

Your #4 is insightful. Functional management that treats their employees well don't tend to attract unions at all. While one can argue that some unions are quite predatory in expanding their membership, just the fact that a workplace becomes unionized says a lot about the failings of management. The flip side is that unions tend to overstay their need. Once the union forms and gets what it wants, it tends to stick around and start looking for other things to campaign for. I would consider joining a union in order to address a specific grievance, but I don't think they should be permanent institutions. Once they accomplish their goal, they should automatically disband. Making them permanent allows them to respond more quickly, but it also makes them vehicles for those seeking power, which means they usually overreach.