This post wins the most pathetic attempt at humor award for today. Maybe it wouldn't be so funny to you if whaterver form of music you listen to was threatened by unions.
I'm sure Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Etta James etc have had their run-ins with union thugs.
If you're a fan of the Big Band era, you can thank the musician's union for playing a major role in killing the big bands. In 1942, the instrumentalists went on strike and refused to make recordings. A Visit From St. Nicholas, the perennially popular Christmas classic by Waring's Pennsylvanians was very nearly a casualty--the recording was finished about a day or so before the walkout began.
The strike lasted more than a year. Meanwhile, the music industry continued to churn out hits, using recordings of live performances or unique choral arrangements which didn't require instrumentalists. Frank Sinatra's Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and People Will Say We're In Love by Bing Crosby and Trudy Irwin, both from 1943, are examples of songs that scored despite the strike.
When the strike was finally settled, many instrumentalists found themselves out of a career because the record-buying public's tastes had changed. Vocalists and small combos were now in vogue, and the big bands were now passé.