Long, long ago, some of my high school acquaintences went to work for American Motors in Milwaukee. They bragged about how they could drink all night and sleep in the bathrooms at the plant all day and management couldn’t touch them. Their shop steward protected them.
So this is what we have with the auto unions. But there is no American Motors any longer.
Someone wiser than I once told me that you should always ask yourself whether you are really earning the money you make. If not, then you might want to think about getting another job.