387). Unions also tend to create a “culture of discontent among their workers, who become adept at detecting workplace problems due to their ability to collectively bargain with employers for better working conditions (Artz, 2010, p.388). » Unions have become incredibly powerful and have done well for their members in terms of safety, benefits and employee compensation. However, they have done absolutely nothing to support recruiting, hiring and protecting people with disabilities. Disabled employees have a hard enough time finding employers willing to employ them, let alone joining a union. Federal and state laws have made incredible progress in providing people with disabilities protections against employment discrimination. The most recent of these successes occurred in 2008 with the passage of the American Disabilities Act Amendments Act (Berman-Gorvine, 2015, p.. 3).