Written by a guy whose office ran on unpaid interns.

Look. I'm IATSE which is AFL-CIO. I'm even pro union. My grandfather was a regional president of the AFL. My other grandfather was a union pipe-fitter. And when writers write shit like this?

UNIONS MUST ORGANIZE MILLIONS OF NEW WORKERS VERY SOON OR EVERYTHING POLITICAL AND ECONOMICALLY WILL GET WORSE. UNIONS MUST MAKE ORGANIZING MORE UNION MEMBERS THE VERY HIGHEST PRIORITY. NOW.

My union "MADE ORGANIZING MORE UNION MEMBERS THE VERY HIGHEST PRIORITY. NOW" and the primary result is that more people are paying union dues, union contracts have more riders gutting them of their protections, necessary hours have gone up so fewer people are getting benefits but oh holy fuck those pension obligations that we all owe the 'boomers are almost covered.

Know why people hate unions?

Currently, more than one in three public sector workers are in unions, making up about half of all the union members in America.

When my daughter was born, we had to go to city hall to get her a birth certificate. We filled out a form with all of her information. And then we handed the form to a union clerk. And then we waited. And another union clerk led us into a room. And the second union clerk handed our piece of paper to a third union clerk, who asked us questions and typed the very same answers we'd filled out onto a piece of paper with a fucking typewriter. And then a fourth union clerk made us swear all that shit was true and notarized it.

Back in my old neighborhood there's a "permeable path." That means "dirt trail" to you. And it rains sometimes and erodes. And people walk on it and it erodes. And they could do one of two things:

1) install a permeable concrete path (look it up - there are a million different ways to do this)

2) Bring out a truck of twelve guys making $70k a year to kill a week and a half every six months shoveling dirt around

Which do you think my union public works department does?

Here's the reality - unions fuck their workers, but they fuck everybody else harder and in an environment where the fucking is ripe, they fuck with no lube. Yeah - my health insurance is stellar but I'm ragged edge of not qualifying for it every year and I"m now living away from my family six months out of the year to have what is probably literally the best sound job in Hollywood.

And it's not like I'm digging ditches. But my union?

They make my rate, every day, 40 hours a week, with paid vacation, for "running the union."

We undoubtedly do have a grim future of labor under Trump. But this knee-jerk "we have to unionize" from assholes that use unpaid interns and couldn't tell you what a "right to work state" is with a gun to their heads isn't helping the problem.