Len McCluskey retires next year. What should his successor do?

I used to be a member of the union Unite. I signed up because I believe in the value of collectivism and, having done an internet search, I felt that Unite were best placed to represent me in my small (6 people) workplace.

Two years after I got my job, my six person workplace had been bought and consumed into a much bigger entity. I was in now a mid-sized, non-organised, private sector workplace and I was going through a reorganisation process I was pretty sure would end up with me losing my job. So I called the union I was paying a not insignificant amount of money to every month, to ask for some representation in the meetings. “Sorry, we don’t do that,” was the answer.