Not all unions are bad.

Unions serve a purpose in many industries but today a lot of them are antiquated echoes from the past.

Uber drivers should have a union IMO, but the ATeachers Union and Manhattan construction industry should have theirs disrupted by something more fitting for the new reality they have too much power. The construction industry literally have people holdning signal flags the entire day.

Furthermore when it comes to Manhattan lets not forget how much wiseguys control many of the cities industries.

I support union, but when a crane operator makes $500,000/year just because of union and location factor, I become ashamed. This reminded me of story from a few years ago about Spanish air traffic controllers making $1,000,000/year+ while others in far more wealthy Eurozone made 1/10th of that.

They often don't see it that way - they see goals, not purposes, and suppressing competition is one of the more common and obvious means to achieve that goal.

Unions themselves are not the problem. It's the union-government partnership that prevents the market from operating properly.