Apathy feeds corruption

In my opinion apathy is the growth medium for union corruption. Union leaders who don't care about following the rules or protecting all the rights of workers are empowered by workers that don't care enough about their rights in their union to speak out, or even to find out what their rights in the union are. Employees have rights regarding their relationship with the union and the union is supposed to watch that those rights are protected. But, if folks do not get involved, who watches the watchers?