You can bet any of the Kentucky or Tennessee hillbilly union members from days past would spit in your eye if you implied they were communist. I’ve worked in industry my whole life and worked with a bunch of skilled union workers on numerous occasions. I’ve seen alot of stupid union moves over the years and I tend to agree with you generally. Let’s just say I support Americans over foreigner’s any day of the week and the way the Gop’e is rolling right now that should be evidently clear. It’s a mixed bag for me, support unions or support illegals. I have never been a union member either.
I have been a union member -- because when living in Pennsylvania, one has no choice in the matter. But I ultimately won by busting the evil union and their gang of lowlife goons.
Among the top three moments of my long life (70+ years) are when I led a successful rebellion to oust a private sector union in the Big Labor stronghold of Western Pennsylvania more than 30 years ago.
After the election, when the union left our company, profits improved and management was able to rightsize the staff. The adversarial relationship between we workers and the bosses vanished. Additionally, the burdensome work regulations that actually were detrimental to the employees were eliminated. For example, the turnaround time rule was tossed, allowing those of us who desired to work additional hours with some nice paychecks.
The deadwood was eliminated. Over a period of months, just about all of those who voted in favor of unionism during the decertification election were fired. I'll confess to taking real glee when a 25-year vet of the company was dismissed. He was a bad seed from the get-to, a featherbedder who thought tenure and seniority were his protection. When I engaged in the action to bust the union, this hateful creep uttered these words: "I was here when you got here and I'll be here when you leave". The Na-Na-Hey-Hey-Goodbye song was popular around that time and we who were loyal to the American spirit of free enterprise gave that union goon a serenade as he slinked out the door for good. This guy and his fellow unionistas were real communist sympathizers since they favored collectivism.