[Casteil]

Did you completely miss the "while not necessarily 'bad'" part of my post?

[mk89]

Not the OP, but I don't understand what your original comment was trying to convey.

You took in my opinion unfortunately the worst example you could. Unions are by definition bureaucratic because they need to be...

[valenterry]

Betriebsräte are not unions though...

[mk89]

You're right, technically they are different. However, the context is relatively similar - lots of laws to know about, etc.