It should be a rule that management needs to come from the ranks. They’d know what they are doing and would be less likely to crap on the brethren, IMO.
It sounds like the membership is but a dues paying tool for a political machine. Oh, come to think of it, that’s what taxpayers are as Obama sends money off here and there, placing us into further debt servitude.
Once a union is formed it’s against the ‘rules’ for members to go to a different union or create a more perfect union. This aspect convinced me long ago that it wasn’t about the members. Keeping options open keeps a union honest...
Union management by default will not come from the rank and file. The modern union is a form of feudalism or tribalism with rights and privileges accruing to the top members and their friends and families.
This is why Democrats and Unions go together their default behavior is feudalism/tribalism. They both rule by force of law rather than by natural ability or liberty.
The rank and file serve as well paid serfs. See the dummies at the hall waiting for work. It is a welfare system. A good union carpenter can work all year round on side jobs. They need the pension and medical benefits the union provides.
Modern unions are not pro-labor, labor is just a tool, a means to an end for the elite.