It's not just regular government unions that are scammy.

The United Nations also has unions of their workers. They're just as bad. It's just about preserving their jobs and increasing their pay.

I worked for one of the UN organizations decades ago. I used to be idealistic about that kind of organization, but no more.

At the time I was there, there had been an upheaval about how inefficient the UN was, they had brought in consultants to try to consolidate. But the union was just not having it.

The union's point was that something like 90% of the costs of the UN were from employees, and if there were going to be big cutbacks, that means they were going to come from reducing the number of employees, and they just weren't going to allow that to happen.