When was the last time that you met a union leader who was not a liar?
I never even had a first time in my 40 + years including 3 years as a local Union Stewart (the worst 3 years of my life).
Not only does the top union leadership lie like a rug, every one of the grievances I had to fight from the members was based on lies.
I was young and stupid, but could also walk and chew gum at the same time and was talked into running for the local stewards position. All I can say is in that three years, every 'grievance' I was forced to file other than one, the company was 100% correct. In a couple of instances, if it were my company I would have fired the SOBs on the spot.
In most instances, it was idiots who thought that just because they were in the union, they could get everything without doing anything. I just doesn't work that way.
It was hell at the time for me, but ended up being a good experience overall. I got to see how it works, but I was damn glad when my time in the barrel was over. :~))
And the 80% rule applies. 80% of the problems came from 20% of the people. It was probably more like 95-5 in my experience.