But when the employer is completely dysfunctional the unions become dysfunctional too.

The purpose of the union is to operate as a check on the employer. If unions can’t rein in the worst impulses of their employers, they aren’t functioning in the interests of the people they supposedly represent.

A corrupt union leadership isn’t part of the proletariat, either. A corrupt union membership - particularly one that’s financially wedded to political insiders - isn’t operating as a bargaining unit for the benefit of itself. These organizations are extractionary. A union of loan sharks or extortionary arsonists isn’t part of the proletariat, either.

The solution is not to take unions away, but rather to stop pouring money for no work and restore that employer-union power balance.

The solution is to dissolve the corrupt institution and reincorporate it with a membership that represents the interests of the community at large. But a cop that’s spent their entire career in a corrupt bureaucracy can’t be trusted to guard the neighborhood any more than a fox can be trusted to guard the hen house. Once you’ve got a taste, you’re ruined. Nothing to do but sort you into a different profession.

So defund the police, I guess?

Call it restructuring.