1.  Your company prides itself on promoting teamwork, team member participation in making decisions, flexibility for individual team members, rewards for performance and informal problem-solving. 

Unions strongly oppose all of those things.

2.  Unfortunately, many unions have a long history of corruption where union officials have stolen money from union members, or threatened and intimidated members. 

3.  When union leaders are unhappy with some organization, they expect members to participate in protests – which sometimes involve illegal or unethical activities. 

4.  Signing a union card can bring in a union without a vote. Union representatives don't have to tell the truth about cards, and some have been caught forging workers’ signatures.

5.  Union representation elections are decided by a majority of the workers WHO ACTUALLY VOTE, not a majority of those who are eligible to vote. Unions sometimes try to discourage some workers from voting in order to improve their chances of winning.

6.  Unions say you can vote them in, give them a try, and then just vote them out again if you don't like it. The truth is, voting a union out is very complicated and expensive, and unions fight hard to stay and keep collecting dues. 

7.  Unions say contract bargaining starts with what you already have and goes up from there. The law says that's not true: you could get more, the same or less than you already have as a result of bargaining. There are no guarantees.

8.  Union officers, not union members, decide what offers from management to accept or reject in contract bargaining. For example, at Boeing in Seattle the union made members vote again when they rejected a contract union officers wanted them to accept. 

9.  Even with a union, management continues to have the right to manage its business. Unions only have power over their members; unions don't control the companies where members work.

10.   Research studies have found that workers who vote in unions do not get better raises than workers who vote against unions - but they still pay dues.

11.  Having a union contract doesn't protect workers from being laid off or losing pay & benefits when times are tough. Sometimes, workers need to be protected from their union -- looking out for their own interests, unions sometimes sacrifice members' jobs.

12. Strikes happen much more often than unions admit. Going on strike (or getting locked out) means giving up your pay and benefits, and possibly being replaced permanently. The union officers who call strikes still get their pay & benefits. 

13.  Unions hold strike votes in a way that makes you choose between accepting a contract you may not like, or agreeing to go out on strike and losing your pay & benefits. 

14.  More and more often, unions are forcing companies to lock out their workers. This avoids bad publicity for the union, but workers have no say in lockouts and they lose pay & benefits when they go out. 

15.  Union members pay most than just dues. They also have to pay any other fees, special assessments and fines the union charges. If you don't pay, the union can take you to court and make you pay the court costs as well.

16.  If you took the money you would have to spend for union dues and other fees of about $50 per month and invest it in a 401k plan or other retirement plan, after 5 years you would have a substantial sum of money. If you left the union before 5 years you would have nothing or 0.

17.  Unions say it's the members who decide how the union spends the dues members pay. But in reality, it's union officers who decide how the money is spent -- not the members.

18.  Union officers spend much of the money they get from members on themselves and their friends/family, and to support political candidates and causes they choose (members have no say).

19.  Unions say their members run the union. But union constitutions say members must obey union rules and union officers.

20.  Unions say it's the members who elect union officers, but it's the union (and the officers) who control union elections. Because union officers want to keep their high-paid positions, they sometimes do things that violate the law.