If my bus company loses my route due to competitive bidding, my union demands that the new company must hire me if I've punched the clock longer than the driver the new company wants to hire. And seniority (punching the clock) is all that matters to the union, not quality. Or skill. Or work ethic. (And making sure that the most senior drivers can never get fired, no matter how lazy they are or how much they screw up.) So, to hell with the kids. It's all about the drivers. And their money.

No, no. Wait a minute, because of course the only reason the union bosses want me to keep my job is to maintain that revenue stream of union dues I've been kicking back to them oh-so-steadily all these years to Michael Corleone and his lieutenants. Because the size of the pile of money the bosses command is all that matters. (Along with the power that goes with it.) So that the union bosses can spread the wealth around to their family members, and cronies, and Marxist organizations and politicians. So we must ensure that all the dues money keeps flowing to the bosses by prohibiting any union drivers from ever losing their job. Union power derives from drivers' dues, so the drivers must keep their jobs so that the dues keep pouring in to the union bosses. So, to hell with the drivers. It's all about the union bosses. And their money.

Glad I could clarify that for you.