That's the way they ALL work, Chuck. I've seen it at close range for 15 years. Sick-ass shit, isn't it?
And, as the line on the graph showing membership continues to sink, the ardor for shoveling money at the DP gets stronger, not weaker.
Of course, the other use that could be made of the billions labor has wasted on PAC graft would be the pool unionists' money to actually start not-for-profit businesses to employ workers and compete with corporations, ala the Swedish Wage Earners' Fund of the 1970s.