Your example was working with the federal government not opposing it.

Your answer was purely about saving their members jobs, not them going off an engaging politically.

Your union had the support of CEOs and Owners.

I have to ask: do you really, honestly, believe that unions are politically powerful at the federal level and interested in subjects that don't directly affect their members? Really? Despite the dwindling memberships, widespread At Will employment being passed, record gaps between worker and CEO pay? Really?

I think it’s undeniable that union power has decreased over the last 50 years.

But it’s also just untrue that they aren’t political entities. In many ways that’s what they primarily are.