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A union is nothing more than a monopoly, or a trust, on a commodity, specifically labor. If one organization gained control over all of a component of an industry, say, aluminum, and forced people to pay their price for aluminum or have no aluminum at all, the government would be expected to break that monopoly and restore the normal balances of free trade. They have become simple thugs. And the government must stop abetting them.

Union leaders are well compensated basically for kicking back, watching the millions of dollars flow in.
The afl-cio multi floor building in wash dc takes a city block.

Now, to be complete and accurate, we have two self-serving groups of federal employees - the unionized workers as discussed here and the union of senior managers also known as the infamous Senior Executive Service - who are happy to abuse workers at all levels to execute their personal agendas - which is also generally contrary to the taxpayer's interest as well. In fact it's worse. The unions are mostly concerned about hours, wages and expected productivity. The SES actively seeks to undermine or overthrow undesireable policies while imposing their own desired policies - the elected political leadership willy-nilly.

In fairness to the unions they are the product of inept, unpatriotic and corrupt senior management.