Members supply dues, stories, volunteer hours, workplace credibility, turnout, and the moral standing attached to essential public and care work. Staff convert those resources into campaigns, relationships, media access, and institutional visibility. The executive director often becomes the most recognizable person associated with the resulting power.

That visibility may be useful to the union.

It may also become useful to the individual.

Exalted figures of old used parable to convey complex meaning through otherwise noisy channels of data. In the modern age, systems can become so complex that adverse behaviors may be obfuscated by the act of technically literal conveyance. This video is a real world example of parable being used to convey complex meaning in the modern data age.