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I found over my working career, that unions are great and I was always a fully paid up member.

I found what ruins them, is what usually ruins many organisations, some of the people who get into management to further their own ends.

It happens in all walks of life, someone sees the opportunity to either brown nose to the boss, or further their political ambitions and see becoming a union rep as a way of getting an audience with management.

It doesn't happen at all workplaces, but I generally worked in large organisations and it happened a lot as there were many reps covering a lot of areas.

It does fall back to the apathy of the workers for not standing for election, but that doesn't change the issue, IMO usually the bully with a self interest won the day backed by his or her cronies.

There is and always will be a place for unions, but the sooner they go back to their prime function of putting the worker first, the sooner they will start and increase their numbers.

They need to disassociate themselves from the political parties and focus on the workplace and furthering the aspirations and outcomes for workers and their working conditions.

Not trying to ensure that one party has its blind support, because the political parties themselves are morphing into other than what they originally were.

With the advent of the internet and social media, the people are well connected and a free flow of information is happening and by the results World wide the working class aren't happy with Labor, which by the defacto relationship says they aren't happy with the union.

So something has to change, or Labor and the unions will continue to slide, which will end in tears for the worker IMO.

The unions keep the conservatives honest, no one is keeping Labor on track, because they are no longer the working mans party ATM they have been hijacked and lost their way.

Just my opinion.