I thought one reason to be part of a union was so that you could bargain for more attractive wage and benefit packages than you might be able to on your own? And doesn’t research suggest that the union compensation premium is at least 15% over non-union workers when properly controlling for other factors?

Then what explains this?

Data from HHS suggest that more than half of the money went to only 24 organizations – with the biggest recipient being the United Auto Workers union