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The purpose of the union is to operate as a check on the employer. If unions can't rein in the worst impulses of their employers, they aren't functioning in the interests of the people they supposedly represent.
A corrupt union leadership isn't part of the proletariat, either. A corrupt union membership - particularly one that's financially wedded to political insiders - isn't operating as a bargaining unit for the benefit of itself. These organizations are extractionary. A union of loan sharks or extortionary arsonists isn't part of the proletariat, either.
The solution is to dissolve the corrupt institution and reincorporate it with a membership that represents the interests of the community at large. But a cop that's spent their entire career in a corrupt bureaucracy can't be trusted to guard the neighborhood any more than a fox can be trusted to guard the hen house. Once you've got a taste, you're ruined. Nothing to do but sort you into a different profession.
Call it restructuring.