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Unions have outlived their usefulness anyway, but to do away with secret ballots is ridiculous.
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Unions exist nowadays to respond to bad managers. At least small unions like the one in our shop. Our union employees were fairly non-committal to the union, they accepted it because it was there. However, thanks to two bad managers, a few of the non-commital to moderatly anti-union members now have become die-hard union supporters. One guy, a died-in-the-wool Republican has become the steward of the union just because of the one manager who mistreats the employees.
That is what I see the role of the union becoming, one to protect employees against bad managers and bad management.