> What does it look like when rubber meets the road? The book The Logic of Collective Action helped me understand. TLDR: Collective bargaining helps prevent t

> What does it look like when rubber meets the road? The book The Logic of Collective Action helped me understand. TLDR: Collective bargaining helps prevent the free rider problem. It's just game theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action -- I have so many complaints about unions. Very briefly. #1 Suboptimal governance. Especially when leadership gets "captured". But that's always true of all human orgs. I have nothing helpful to add here. #2 Accelerating inequity. Corporate profits up while wages remain stagnant. Just as u/singron commented elsethread. I just don't understand how this isn't the central issue. For every person, union, voter, policy maker. For everyone. #3 Adversarial relationship (in the USA). Labor and Capital (via their proxy, Management) need to work together. My only notion is to encourage member (employee) owned and managed co-ops. (Which would need access to financial support of come kind, eg "slow capital". Which is antithetical to Wall St, neoliberalism, rent seeking, yadda, yadda.) That said... I'm very pro-Labor. And unenthusiastically pro-union, out of necessity, until we figure out something better. Like you suggest, no way simply unionizing magically resolves my complaints. Meta stuff like culture, policy, laws, expectations would have to change, to create the space for "better" unions. Stuff like repeal Taft Hartley Act, institute sectorial bargaining, investment banks structured to support social endeavors (like co-ops), yadda yadda. And I have no clue where to start.