I don't know about that. I was reading an article written by an emergency room nurse. She told of how many doctors routinely covered up serious mistakes made other doctors. These bad doctors operated while drunk, high, half-asleep, etc. The good doctors rarely reported the bad doctors.
Doctors are not unionized. I think the problem is elsewhere.
Good doctors get accused of malpractice too. They need to have ALL the other doctors ready and willing to cover their backs.
I never claimed the same sort of dynamic was exclusive to union organizations; I’ve seen it in every org where the structure insulates its members from negative consequences. Academia does it with tenure, for example. Union labor is simply the second-most wide-spread form of such an organism. First place goes to governments.
Like government, unions are notorious for their failure to rid themselves of bad actors; they don’t oust people, they protect them, instead, and point fingers of blame at “management.” Union guys never work slow; they’re always “taking the time necessary to do it right.” “He’s not a bad employee; ‘management’ is only saying so because they have an ulterior motive.” Poor workers are those who work too diligently; they’re too conscientious; they get done too quickly and leave a trail of quality workmanship behind. THOSE guys get shown the door for making everyone else in the union hall look like slackers. And don’t even start in about the poor greenhorn who goes to the shop Steward to report another guy loafing on the job. That’s a rookie mistake that gets you a big arm around your shoulders and a stern, private office monologue that typically begins something like, “Son, there’s a few unwritten codes of conduct, here, that you really need to take to heart.”
“Union whistleblower”? Don’t make me laugh.
There’s a reason why the mob and union labor knock around together: they’re organizational kin.