Well, they could have waited a couple hours -- on the clock -- for a foreman to show up -- at overtime rates -- to kick or shovel the dead racoon out of the way.
Seriously, this is beyond any parody of union work rules that I could imagine.
Oh I have a much better Union story than that.
Many years ago I worked as a engineer for a defense contractor that had union laborers (the engineers were not unionized, so you can eliminate Boeing for your speculations).
After finishing up work on a project and getting transfer to a new project, an engineer friend of mine was being moved to his new location in a trailer on the opposite end of the plant (over half a mile away). Upon arriving at his new location he noticed that the movers had forget his telephone, so he called up the riggers and scheduled them to move his phone.
Hours later, his phone arrived. sitting by itself on a pallet, being moved by a forklift, with two riggers walking beside the forklift.
And the Union drones wondered why the engineers hated working with them.
(BTW, in case anyone is wondering why my friend didn’t just go get the phone himself, it’s because he would have gotten written up for it and him and his manager would have gotten in trouble and his project would have had to pay whatever outrageous charge the Union claimed was rightfully theirs for moving the phone.)