In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation. Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation. Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes little sense. The author's reasoning leads to the further conclusion that

the authority of corporate managers would be symbolically undermined if labor leaders were allowed to participate in corporate planning

workers have virtually no idea of how to run a large corporation

workers would not derive any benefit from hearing the goals of corporate management explained to them at semiannual meetings

the efficiency of workers would be lowered if they were to divide their time between production line duties and management responsibilities

allowing labor a voice in corporate decisions would involve labor representatives in a conflict of interest