A lot of my friends come from the midwest and some of them have a pretty had take on unions due to chicago. For one there is the cop unions, which I get. And then there is the teachers union. Their justification for their hatred of the teachers union is that the education they got from union teachers sucked, the teachers were abusive but the union protected them from getting fired and they stayed their forever. I know plenty of non-union teachers who were the same, but I guess they did eventually get let go. In general the sentiment is that unions often reward the older leadership members and screw the younger ones, but most importantly they do not serve the greater public. Unions in their experience, are entirely self interested and don't care about the service that is ultimately produced in america. While my friend agrees that this accusation also falls on employers, and to a higher degree, that does not change how she feels about unions. What do you say to this?
I think the question I have that I am not sure about is addressing the union problem of it basically being too narrow minded and therefore cutting off more universal changes that are needed. Another thing that was brought up was the nevada unions voting against medicare for all and hurting Sanders in the primary. My friend voted for Bernie in this primary. This kind of think is rampant in the midwest where I am from.