Many on this sub are very pro-union, and with some good unions. But in advanced countries, established unions often seem to be in bed with management and to sabotage real efforts at worker activism like crippling strikes. The World Socialist Website, for example, which espouses the opinion of a Trotskyist organization, generally holds the line that the older, established unions are coopted by management and are actively underlining worker activism at key moments. Just look at their headlines at their site:
https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
So is it true that established unions are increasingly useless to workers? Are new unions or other labor organizations needed, like the WSWS's suggested rank-and-file committees that organize to speak for workers and, ultimately, demand worker control of the means of production? Is this the only way forward — to build a new infrastructure of labor activism that is unapologetically opposed to companies' efforts to squeeze workers ever further?