Unions are fast becoming irrelevant.
If so then we will evolve toward Latin American style oligarchy and corruption.
I wish that were so. My experience with unions is summed up largely by saying that they protect the very worst workers.
Some of the best workers I have ever had work for me were in Unions, but many had no real appreciation or respect for the goons that run them or the stooges that support those manipulative parasites.
At present, unions exist to support the DNC.
Both are scrambling for a say these day's.
Perhaps they walk hand in hand?
The unions were forced into existence when Gummint work became not a life-long profession but cronyism. At one time civil service was a low paying career, but sure and honorable. But, political machines came in and jobs were handed out to favorites. The unions brought stability and security, but the price was the usual union stuff, including wage contracts. Win some lose some. For Gummint managers, the union rep can be their best friend or their worst enemy. The situation was forced on the workers by the corruption of the system. We all end up paying, but you will find that the civil servants are a very capable group, very professional as a whole, and that kind of corruption is limited to only a few top-level positions these days. The average worker is fairly secure again.