Your talking about shop steward positions in different locals. They do the time and get all the over time too.

Then you have Operating Engineers Local 14 nyc Master Mechanic (Shop Steward) Thats a 250k a year time keeper. Compressor operators,welder maintenance guys- Operating Engineers Local 15 you have oilers,Maintenance Foreman, Generator guys, etc.

Local 20 Concrete Laborers Give 1 guy on a big job the coffee route,lol... full scale but just sells stuff.

Teamsters stewards at big jobs do nothing.

The show up jobs and hang around jobs the feds consider feather bedding. then there are of course no show jobs.

In union construction, especially NYC area, if you get a friend a job its conspiracy. In the corporate world, its just getting a freind or family a job.