I have always been in a union when I've been employed and a big supporter of unionisation.
But I'd be wary of spending my money on union dues now unless I was confident the union was working in the genuine interests of their members.
In DH's job union intransigence over Covid working has meant that jobs will soon be lost because the union advised people not to do work that needed to be done due to safety fears.
Now they have found ways to do that work with a fraction of the number of people.
These changes would have come in gradually over the next few years and they expected the union to block them and to reduce staffing through natural attrition.
But now, with the collusion of the union, jobs have been made redundant over the course of a few months.
People sitting at home on full pay thinking they have a secure job to go back to are going to get a nasty shock.
If their union leaders had the wit they were born with, those jobs would still exist in the medium term.
Any union that is arguing that the work their members do is unimportant and can't be done due to "safety" is not a union it is worth joining.
Utter idiocy.