Why are people so hostile to unions?

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The primary reason people don't like unions is because people perceive that unions allow for poor workers to stay employed, do poor work and collect good pay and benefits while doing it. This is inherently distasteful to most people.

Say I'm your average Canadian. Unions in theory shouldn't bother me, it's perfectly fine for people in a company to\ form a union. But that's not what happens in reality. In reality, that union benefits other people at the expense of myself. Why? Because of government unions and government bailouts. Government workers should never have unions, it makes no sense, they are already hired by the government who can input any protections or wages they want. But they all do - and it costs all of us. Government employment is not required to be profitable, with the most obvious example being healthcare. If workers demand more money, that means government budgets need to increase, which means my tax dollars will increase. This is not fair because I have no choice in it. Those unions wages and benefits are now coming partly from my pocket, and protecting them likewise. The second example would be a company like a car company. When it's worker costs are too high and it fails, it gets a government bailout which is at the expense of you and me.

That's why people hate unions, because they suck up money from everyone against their will, not just their own workers, but they benefit only their own workers. If unions were limited to private companies, and we let those companies fail once the unions kill them, I think people would be much more accepting of them.