In actual fact, the union DOES represent the workforce quite accurately in a way, since WE ALL had a chance to express our opinion in the pension ballot, and it turned out that the majority of the workforce agreed with the management proposal !!!
A tree that falls makes a lot more noise than 100 trees growing, and equally, a bunch of disgruntled barking ATCOs moaning on pprune makes more noise than a lot more colleagues picking up high salaries and AVAs silently and accepting what sh!t gets thrown at them for the "greater good" of a cushy life. But making a lot of noise doesn't mean being the majority.