Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.

Chapter 6, Democracy Against Capitalism, p. 208 - Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)