re: Why I hate Unions - BLET spends millions on resorts while members "can't afford bills"

A friend of mine once worked at a union plant. He had just started and didn't want to be seen as lazy so in one of his quiet moments he went outside to wash down the area which was part of his job as a cleaner. The hose he was using had an ideal clamp on it at the nozzle end but the clamp was leaking due to it being loose. He borrowed a screwdriver from someone and was tightening the ideal clamp when a Union official passed by and saw him. The Union official tore into his arse, yelling that he wasn't a mechanic and had no business with a screwdriver in his hand.
My friend insists this story is true, but I can't see that such a simple thing could be looked down upon that way by anyone, much less a union official.