I have dealt with many Human Resource departments and have yet to find one that was looking out for the interests of the non-executive employees. On what do you base your statements, and your implication that the HR department is a better means of protecting the employee's interests than the unions? I find your whole argument completely untenable, even if unions are typically corrupt, or uninterested in their workers, which I doubt is the typical situation. Anything they do in the employee's interests is more than the HR department is likely to do. By the way, the interests of the Board of Directors is unlikely to be synonymous with the interests of the average worker.

Michael Siskin