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I found out how unions worked when I started a factory job to pay for college. First day there I was told to slow down because I was making more widgets per hour than the union had bargained for. If I worked that fast it would make others look slow and that would cause problems. I never understood how a person could get ahead in that environment. I felt like the goal of the union was to get people to do as little work as possible and to keep me from moving up in the company and getting a raise.
Dad worked for the post office and basically confirmed what I told him. My dad said he could get his letters delivered in about 70% of the time we was given. When no one was watching he would fly through his route and use the extra time to cut the lawn and other stuff. When he had some inspector walk along every so often he would have to slow way down and make sure he finished right on time.
I understand union were needed in the old days but now days if an employer was so bad that that he would work you into the ground in dangerous conditions I'd work someplace else. I guess if you work in a mine in the hills with no other jobs around it still might make sense but joining a union as a bag boy seem nuts.
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