Simply because unions seem to have a really bad rep here on the boards, an example. The Germans had really powerful unions after WW2 that could pretty much shut down their whole economy (although they didn't do it quite as often as the French for example).
In the 90s though when the german economy had to digest the cost of the reunification and unemployment rose support for the unions and their hardcore stance fell, they lost massive public support and paying members and lo and behold they did indeed change. They regionalized their services and looked at the regional circumstances before negotiate for wages. They supported wage restraint in bad economic times and in the last crisis short time working to allow people to be employed. Thus when the economy rebounded the German companies had all the workforce alread in place instead of having to rehire and retrain new people. They received alot of credit for the recent resurge of the economy.
So from practical observation unions aren't the boogeyman, just another player in the economy. Not good or bad per se.
In the 90s though when the german economy had to digest the cost of the reunification and unemployment rose support for the unions and their hardcore stance fell, they lost massive public support and paying members and lo and behold they did indeed change. They regionalized their services and looked at the regional circumstances before negotiate for wages. They supported wage restraint in bad economic times and in the last crisis short time working to allow people to be employed. Thus when the economy rebounded the German companies had all the workforce alread in place instead of having to rehire and retrain new people. They received alot of credit for the recent resurge of the economy.
So from practical observation unions aren't the boogeyman, just another player in the economy. Not good or bad per se.