Hmmm, then the American sheeple are in the same boat the average rank and file union member is in - their leadership sucks.
Political and union leaders seem to have the same problem - they are right about as often as a stopped clock - and act only under pressure from the rank and file. Just as many union rank and file have it as right as American sheeple, union members are just a cross section of the sheeple.
I was under a Union once. I resented it from day one. I was not at that job long, which is just as well as I was going to get the Rank and File to vote on dissolving the Union!