Original Message

There's a old Bon Mot, "No company ever got a union that didn't deserve one."  So they are kind of just a fact of life.  If there were no unreasonable people in management there would be need for a formal organization to combat that unreasonableness.  Unfortunately, the most unreasonable of us tend to be promoted to the lowest levels of management, there to remain creating hate and discontent wherever they go.

Hate that unions support Democrats? Me too, but the Republican party (workers today) turned the unions (workers 100 years before) away long ago.

Is your union ineffective and wasteful?  Mine too, but I pay my dues to support my friends and coworkers because that's what good little helicopter pilots do.