We had a state rep recalled a few years back because the union claimed he had cut funding and caused the school district to lose teachers.
The fact is that the school district got more money and hired something like 7 more teachers.
There was a story some years back (I think it may have been in my neck of the woods) of the teacher’s union in some school district crying poor because the average teacher was making something like $50k/yr, and then it came out that the average worker in the county that contained the district made $30k/yr.