> The purpose of unions is to extract as much as possible from the employer on the behalf of its members, or at least to extract more than the employer would ot

> The purpose of unions is to extract as much as possible from the employer on the behalf of its members, or at least to extract more than the employer would otherwise have given. > You do not contradict anything I have written (...) I mean, you directly contradict me in the previous paragraph about what the purpose of unions is, can we at least agree to disagree? > (For instances tech companies have not needed unions to offer high pay and plenty of perks) That's true, some companies do well without unions, but this does not make unions universally useless.