Spoken like someone who's never been in a union before.
Personal anecdotes are not gospel. There are people who consider a single dollar as a union fee to be too much money, and hate unions on ideological grounds.
They are, generally speaking, net positives for a worker.
I've actually developed a fucking Pavlovian response to the words "but first, let's talk about..." or any variation in a video, because 9 times out of 10 the creator is about to shill out for a scam product despite my ad blockers.