Declining Unions Could Be Making Working-Class Americans Less Happy

The unions seem beholden to the folks running the union and a few influential members. If you tell them "hey having people poor to start their career seems like a bad idea" you will get squat.

And honestly the folks operating the union seem like people who shouldn't be in management, of anything ... it's one of the weird crippling aspects of US unions IMO.

Teachers union in the us is a great example, that's a bad job man ... union negotiations don't seem to make it better.

For reference this is a textbook example of an equivocation (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Equivocation). The statement has two meanings: the trivially true "A union is made up of its members" and the implicit claim "The behavior of the management of a union is what the majority of its members want".

The latter statement is a very bold claim (and does not survive even a tiny amount of empirical scrutiny for those familiar with unions in practice), so the commenter tries to launder it into the discussion by conflating it with the obviously-true trivial meaning.