Three stories about unions. My former boss worked 20 years as a teamster in California. He moved to Washington State and started his own business and when he attempted to keep the union benefits and dues going, he was told he had to start over at 0 days worked. My brother in law worked for the carpenter union and was the superintendent on high rise buildings in LA. When he moved to Washington he was told he had to get in line to make up for years of being in a different State with the same Union. He was seldom called out, because they flat out didn’t want him cashing in his retirement. He gets nothing from that union to this day. My Uncle was a member of a Laborers local in the state of Washington. When he retired he got a decent check monthly. Due to the union people in charge of his local, a lot of money went missing that was supposed to be deposited. He had his retirement cut in half. YEP, Unions are great, if you are working for the Government, they just raise the money needed with tax increases as they have the beneficiaries of donations in charge of taxation.
Got the union paperwork,ignored it,just did my job.
A couple of weeks later,two big guys walk into my bosses office and leave in about 5 minutes.
My boss comes out and tells me "You have to pay union dues"
I quit,found a non union job,been there 20 years.