It's unfortunate but I think correct that the large unions did well in the 90s.  The wages increased as did the benefits. The health labour adjustment plan put hundreds of millions of dollars into job security plans that were supposed to encourage employees to gain education but due to the disincentive of wage compression (little difference between unskilled and skilled pay schedules) few actually took advantage of that part of the plan.  Little of that money went into patient care and now we have one of the most expensive health systems in the world with inverse outcomes compared to places like Singapore and Taiwan.  There is incredible job security for completely incompetent and/or unmotivated people.  But Clark has sold out to developers and foreign RE investors.  I will vote Green in order to register my complete disgust at the two major parties and so not to give either the lesser of two evils a false sense of their importance.