It helps to put it this way: A union is a corporation that has an exclusive contract to provide labor. Company A does not hire the employees. Company B (the uni

It helps to put it this way: A union is a corporation that has an exclusive contract to provide labor. Company A does not hire the employees. Company B (the union) does. Company A cannot take disciplinary actions against the employees of B, they don't work for company A, they work for company B. This is actually how union contracts work. Most union employees don't understand this; They think they work for company A when it's convenient for them, and company B when it's convenient for them, cherry-picking whatever suits them at the moment. Because legal formalisms aren't real and human behavior is, unions provide a thin veneer over petty human squabbles, one that mostly works. Most union agitators absolutely understand this, but will never admit it. In classic orwellian fashion, they are the pigs, "overthrowing" the farmers "for the good of the farm animals" with every intent of just becoming the new farmers.