“understand that we no longer live in the days of Jimmy Hoffa.”

Yes, he was comparatively honest when compared to Union operations to day. It has only gotten worse over time as Unions feel less fear of being prosecuted for there crimes.
Unions also feel less obligation to provide any service to its members to day as compared to then.

Just look at the UAW RECO case involving Freightliner, unfortunately this is not and abbreviation, but a example of Standard Union practice.

The IBEW, the IFWC, the Pipe fitters, the Long shore men, they All do it.

Unions keep wages down for the Working people. They also force many small companies out of business that is why GM signed with the UAW in the first place in the 1930’s. GMC had done some calculations and figured out that many of the companies like Studebaker, Packard, Auburn, Nash, Graham, Overland…. Would not be able to stay in business with the Unions, but that GM could.

It was all about introducing en efficiency in to the system that smaller Automakers could not handle.
It also turned the Factory Worker into a Machine, an Interchangeable Cog.