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Yes, exactly, and people are so dogmatic about the topic it makes space for mismanagement and corruption like any other organization. I became an engineer, so we are 'forbidden' to join a union and that was fine with me for a long time.
That mindset was based on my personal experiences with unions working as a teenager and throughout university, as well as from watching my blue-collar parents get fucked by their unions and companies equally, over and over and over my whole life. As I've become old and learned the role of OG unions in the creation of most of the rights as a worker I take for granted today (ex. weekends exist), it has been difficult to reconcile.
Having unions is not only good, but required, but they have to be held to a higher standard than they are today, and they shouldn't be immune to criticism from workers.