You realize that unions derive their power from the workers who VOTE to join one (or join an already formed union, thus effectively voting to join it).
Unfortunately, looks like we will have to regress back to the conditions found earlier in our history to change minds.
Why would they have the power to run or ruin a company? And I'm not quite sure what your second statement is saying (typo)?
Anyways, I am a union member (limited energy installer/tech, IBEW LU 58) and have seen and heard about good and bad.
Good: our pay, benefits, working hours, training, safety. Everything is spelled out in the contract. There is no "stay a little bit" stretching into working a little bit longer everyday for no additional pay. Saturday? Sure, that will be time and a half. You want me to do what without a safety harness? Go buy me one and we'll talk.
Bad: "corrupt union bosses" YEP. Between the International HQ doing their best to fuck us in their own way and our own local having had such corrupt leaders we had a DOL investigation result in a new vote a few years ago, I believe it. I worked with a guy who had been a UAW steward for several years before taking a buyout and joining our apprenticeship. He was sick of THE UNION (oh wait, there is more than one?)--his local UAW chapter--defending some of the turds who they should have been tossing out the door.
Of course, a few shady people evidently means the few thousand brothers and sisters who have joined the union will lose out. Maybe we should treat corporations the same way? When one corporation does something wrong we should then dissolve ALL of them? And per Snyder's quotes yesterday, should I have a choice in paying my taxes for this year? If the state isn't winning my support maybe I should withhold it.
But it's okay, dismiss anything I say as being a union shill.