STRIKE TWO!!!!!

Today there is a general strike in Spain and I am striking.
This is the first time that I have ever been on strike because up to now I have never really agreed with the motives (ususally political here in Spain) behind them.
First, let's examine the unions and why I disagree with them so strongly:
When Franco csme to power, obviously all left-wing organisations were banned, to put it mildly. This included UGT, the Socialist trades union, CCOO, the Communist one, CGT, the Anarchist one and a plethora of other workers' organisations.
In post-civil-war Spain the Left had no place, but to throw a sop to the idea of democracy, "representative" organisations of all types were invented that ran on what was known as vertical democracy. In essence, what this meant was that the shop floor voted for the candidate(s) that the regime provided them with. These in turn voted for the next layer of representation etc. etc - a sort of 20th-century feudalism. By the way, this still exists. In the "democratic" university where I work, the Rector is not voted for directly by the students, teaching and services staff but by the abovementioned system.
In 1978 Spain voted for its democratic constitution and the left avidly took over the selfsame organisations that Franco had established. Now, however, it was indeed  "democratic", even though in some cases the patronage and favours system merely got handed down from one generation of the ruling bourgeoisie to the next. The political parties changed, but, in some cases, the families did not.
Suddenly, the old trades unions were back in business, their patrimony restored and their status of guardians of the people unquestioned.
But.
In Spain Trades Unions are subsidised by the State. Obviously their members pay dues but the State (ie the tax payer) picks up the greatest part of the tab. Therefore, we all have to pay for the Communist. Socialist Anarchist, etc. unions, whether we want to or not, through our taxes.
Furthermore, instead of being organised by economic activity, they are organised by political party. The closed shop was bad enough, but this???
This can also lead to conflicts of interest between sectors within the same union. Imagine company X decides  to close its plant in Spain and move to Belgium, transporting its finished goods to Spain by rail. How can the same union represent the losers in the manufacturing industry and the winners in the railways at the same time?
How can such organisations represent all of its members simultaneously?
The answer is that they don't. They represent themselves, posturing and strutting in front of the cameras, spouting demagogical nonsense that appeals to the least-formed intellect and basest emotions while picking up their rather large pay packets. Obviously, when the unions call a strike, we can't expect the union officials to lose their pay. No way. They still get paid on strike days while the people they claim to represent lose money they can ill-afford to do without. The unions are just as corrupt, at least in ideals, as the rest of the political classes here in Spain.
That is why although I am on strike, I will not be on any of the marches. I want to make a personal protest. I do not want to be represented by the unions, even though they will claim to have represented me. I've got better things to do such as listen to Radio 4 and drink tea in my cosy bottom-of-the-garden shed