I don't know anything about this situation, but to play devils advocate here, if my goals were not in alignment with the union bosses or whatever group is tryin

I don't know anything about this situation, but to play devils advocate here, if my goals were not in alignment with the union bosses or whatever group is trying to get me to sign. I would avoid even reading the terms if there wasn't real market pressure to do so. If a group exists explicitly trying to be an authority over how I behave but we have nonaligned goals, I'm never going to make it painless for them to have input on how I behave. I would want them to know I will operate as I deem correct until I have goals that can't be met without their approval. They could be trying to force me to sign a contract that simply says I'll operate however I want to and if I believed they were an opposing force and not a partner I wouldn't sign it until I was force to sign it.