re: You might have picked a bad example.
I don't know I'm not in any union (could have been when contracting).
Timothy D. Allport goes on to say:
Collective bargaining and labor laws have been trashed under the guise of national security. Agency budgets are dangerously underfunded and morale is low. Overrtime pay and maybe our retirement systems are being threatened. Reduction-in-force notices have been sent to thousands of employees. A hiring freeze is in place and mandatory overtime is burning out our staff.
Which if true could result in bad prison problems and if indicative of all law enforcement it could be disastrous.