@silas as an upside your membership with the union is your own, so you don't lose your healthcare with your job and other bizzare things the daddy state policies create.
for example even having a benefits package is WW2 state interference. they banned raising wages, so companies started relying on giving out bonuses, and then the government came back again and said hey those benefits are now gonna be mandatory, even though they shouldn't exist in the first place and your company's sole concern is actually getting you paid (while you hire someone else who's sole job is keeping you alive.)