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I was a union member for 25.5 years and was thankful we had one. I worked for an agency that has a terrible reputation for personnel abuses, and they earned it. Their style of management for a good portion of it was "screw em we'll do what we want let em griev it!" Knowing full well what they were doing was wrong but expedient. You need a union to help be successful. Your probably thinking omg who is this liberal? you'd be wrong. The FAA has more failed projects and overruns than probably any other agency why? Because they think they know what controllers need to do the job without asking one. They think because they worked in some podunk airport 20 years ago
(which they probably sucked at) they know all. There is a lot more collaboration these days but that usually changes with the administration and long term projects suffer the start and stop overruns every time. Yes the union fights for wages and benefits and working conditions. My last facility had approx 250 bue's ( bargaining unit employees) and we had 98% VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION, this is not cut along political lines, these are relatively bright people, they understand the value of and need for a union.