I work at an ingredients manufacturing plant operating the machines. We have a union, but it is not in the employees control at all. The union leaders get corporate positions at the end of their terms and we continue to lose all our benefits contract after contract. This job used to be the cream of the crop that everyone in my town aspired to have, but it's slowly turning into another wage slave job. Last contract we lost sick days and it was replaced by a point system, all our bonuses are just raffles for trips that the same 4 people have won every year or a 50 dollar gift card (before it would've been cash based on production revenue, which of course has been at an all time high for the past 5 years. ) This next contract were set to lose triple time after 55 hours worked, which we get to quite often. The worst part is they are taking these things away from us and not giving anything back. What are some steps I can take to try and get my union to be a union again, and not continually take this corporate assfucking? Also 0.75% raise in this coming contract, with this inflation? What a fucking joke.