I've known quite few in my time.Florida. I know beach lifeguards here; they work for their particular county, but are most certainly not unionized.
They generally don't do sh!t - essentially get paid to sit in the tower and twiddle their thumbs.
When the ocean moves a little bit, they put up a red flag.
When they get bored, they get punitive with surfers.
And when they should be enforcing general rules and regs they do dick - especially when it comes to dogs.
Plenty of unions in Florida, and all over the East Coast.Nor is any other industry that I know of; the only unions I am aware of are the teachers union, and I' m not sure if they are unionized or just want to be.
They pull political strings too.