1. Unions often resist cooperating with management in facilitating change beneficial to the workers because:

unions don’t believe the change will be beneficial

unions believe that workers never benefit from any management-based organizational change

employees pay union dues to have the union resist management

if the proposed management change is perceived by the employees as beneficial to them, the union loses influence over the employees

2. European unions may be more influential than those in the U.S. because:

they are subsidized by government agencies and don’t need internally generated revenue

political activity is one of their major goals

U.S. members are more anti-social

European members tend to be less materialistic