When I worked with a public employee union in CA a school district was having budget problems and had laid off a few groundskeepers, library assistants, etc. A few parents decided to volunteer their time to take up the slack. The union took the school district to court because those parents were taking away jobs from union workers and won.
Local government employees, probably in parks and recreation, years ago caught squirrels and painted them day glow orange. I guess they didn’t have anything better to do.