| The US is a bit different. 1) Many unions are govt unions - think police, prison guard, teachers. 2) For closed shop states, if a union wins election, EVERYONE has to join the union. 3) A history of corruption in unions in some cases. 4) There is a perception in the US that unions and lazy workers overlap. Teachers unions, prison guard unions, police unions - they need to have some real good examples of the successes unions can bring. Internationally (at least in EU in my experience) there really are those. In the US it's a bit muddied. The latest example I saw, a parent wanted to try and get schools to reopen. Union called them racist - "she was being racist and not considering “the needs of brown/black families who 'predominantly want to stay home' as evidenced by the several months old OUSD survey that was sent out to all district parents." Stuff like this is kind of eye rolling. The union starts calling folks racist for wanting their kids in school? Do the black/brown folks they are speaking for even agree with these claims? |