It started with Chavez himself, who I suspect was seriously mentally ill in his later years. He corrupted his own Union, made it into an anti-worker steamroller and an adjunct to the most sleazy elements of the Democratic Party.
Pathetic.
Odd. But the very people who the “union” advertises as “pro-worker” and “for the little man” are the ones who get attacked as soon as the UNION is either being voted out, being audited or forced to actually do what it claims to do, or being audited against political donations to the democrats.