You must have slept through the last 3 decades.
Unions are on a respirator.
Have been since Reagan torched PATCO.
They’re getting clobbered on the state level all over the US, even in traditional liberal strongholds like California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
In Indiana where I live, the first action of Gov Mitch Daniels in 2005 was de-certifying the UAW as the representative of the state employees.
Unions spent 4 billion $ on political campaigns in the last 5 years or so. Yeah unions have influence nor power according to you?