Perfect? No. But it seems like the alternative is to throw up our hands and let unelected billionaires hoover up all the senators.
Unions represent the interests of the workers, not the consumers. Why would a union care about consumer privacy?
Workers often care about not throwing the people who use their products under the bus, or at least those who are paid on salary have a less strong financial incentive to throw people under the bus than shareholders, and thus in many cases may be able and willing to exert a positive influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Diplomacy_failure_... In January 1964, President Johnson attempted to convince United Auto Workers' president Walter Reuther not to initiate a strike just before the 1964 election and to support the president's civil-rights platform. Reuther, in turn, wanted Johnson to respond to Volkswagen's increased shipments to the United States.[15] The Chicken Tax directly curtailed importation of German-built Volkswagen Type 2s in configurations that qualified them as light trucks.
(They also do not always serve employees well. Same as every elected authority does not always do a good job and often invovle a self-serving small circle).
If you believe in some libertarian ideal of everything being handled by contract law and individuals, then I’m not sure there’s more to discuss.