Local 1000 is DMV.
Local 362 is in charge of dealing with rats. Oh - wait, 362 is roaches, 363 is rats.
The DMV workers are afraid of calling either of them in.
Note. My uncle was in charge of all of PanAm’s interior operations at JFK back in the day. He was giving me and my parents a tour of the place. We were down underneath where the conveyors were moving luggage and a piece fell off. I reached for it to put it back on the conveyor.
“Don’t touch that! Only union workers can touch the luggage. I’d be out of a job!”
“But somebody will be missing their bag!?”
“Those are the rules kid.”
I have heard of this phenomena. It was even portrayed in a tv show I watched long ago in which only the janitor’s union members could empty the wastebaskets.
Union Rules are what is causing their downfall.
I worked at union carbide once and I moved my computer monitor from one desk to another. I got called out on it because the union rules said only they could move things.
I have no idea how they even knew the monitor was moved
I recall working a Summer job at a coal-fired power plant in the ‘70s. There was some construction work scheduled beside the rail line for the coal cars and at least three trades were out in force, operators for two cranes and several compressors, boilermakers to handle large tubes, and carpenters for cribbing. Altogether, there were about thirty people involved, not including the half-dozen managers with white helmets. As it happened, there was a small pile of dirt on the tracks several yards from the site. One could have moved the pile with a shovel in maybe five minutes. It was that small. However, no work could start until the dirt was removed. Because unions were involved, no one could even think about touching a shovel; that trade belonged to the laborers, of which there were none present. A call went out to the Union hall for two (!) laborers who showed up around six hours later. A expected, it took only a few minutes for the pair to deal with the dirt pile, but by that time the day was over and all the trades were headed to the changing shed.