I'd like to think that a tech worker's union composed of people already aware of white hat, grey hat, and black hat distinctions would be set up with some struc

I'd like to think that a tech worker's union composed of people already aware of white hat, grey hat, and black hat distinctions would be set up with some structural impediments to corruption. In my head, it would have similar structure to working groups, where stuff gets done by consensus, without anyone having so much authority that they can do an obviously wrong thing and still preserve their influence. I'm not sure how it would work to have a union that can essentially fork itself whenever the leadership goes bad, or even one that has no leadership to begin with, and manages everything with a consensus/compromise algorithm.