Oh I believe it. You also have a job that’s involved with collective bargaining, am I right? When that works properly, which it seems to in your case, you’ll generally land in a favorable position for a lot of things because, well, that’s the whole point of doing collective bargaining: to put you in a decent position in general that’s fair.
16 million people in the USA work in unions. 11% of the workforce. You are part of that 11% if I remember right.
1/2 of that workforce is in government (or was)
1/2 of that workforce is in the private sector.
5.9% are unionized in the private sector.