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I recall a similar instance on Long Island, maybe 6 or 8 years ago. A local Boy Scout troop intended to clean up a local creek which had old tires, shopping carts, etc. The Village sanitation department (union) threw a hissy fit. Claimed the Scouts were taking their jobs! Kids were being exploited a slave labor to take work away from paid employees! Never mind that the creek had been that way for years as the "paid employees" never went near it.
Then there's the Sante Fe RR (pre-BNSF) breakman that hurt himself on the job. He and the union fought for years to be classified as disabled and get disability pay. After he gets it, 8 days later he sues the railroad for not giving him his old job back. claims they discriminated against him because of his disablity.

If you realllly want to start talking about abusive unions, there is no better place than the railroads! I have an acquaintance who is a locomotive engineer and I just about can't stand listening to the stories this nut brags about.