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I don't know how true this is across the board, but I'm an office worker for a power company and a lot of the people in my department are union because we work with the stuff around what the electricians and gas guys do. So maybe it's worth looking into jobs that support the trades to see if the workers around such are unionized as well?
For what it's worth, and more specificity, I do GIS mapping for electric and gas utilities in the area my company covers.
Managers never belong in the union, for a variety of reasons. Primarily because they don't need the protections that unions provide as much; historically they've been the ones causing the problems the unions were formed to fight.
Non-manager office workers is probably up to each local. They also don't usually need the protections, but there are some unions for them even if they can't join the trades union.