I can hardly believe it, but I think we're actually starting to see a cultural shift around unions and the connotations of the word "union". I think it's kind of happening as a snapback effect against Amazon, but I think unions are starting to make headway against 50 years of being vilified.
oddly enough some of the problem with unions is that they're too united, in that they've become completely kneecapped by union busting and the legislation that has developed around it.
it takes national approval for a strike to occur. i feel like my local has plenty of reasons to refuse to work, but it all has to be run by upper union management, which leads to politics and a whole bunch of bullshit (corrupt asshole stewarts and business agents, dipshit spineless mother fuckers, a shitty card game played with people's livelihoods), as opposed to just "fuck this, fuck you, we're out."
kind of redundant to have to answer to any kind of management whether it be union or not, to improve material conditions. definitely more of an anarchist when it comes to unions than I am a communist.
That's why I was so thrilled the Staten Island Amazon DC formed an independent union.
a bit late, but yeah, I think I agree with this take. I think I would just characterize it as "too bureaucratic" or maybe "too liberal", rather than "too unified."