He is just projecting. Unions and historically trade and craft guilds have been organized bodies to protect the interests of their members in a hierachical system. Where before the craftsmen were their own businessmen but subjected to feudal order, now the workers are employed to a capitalist.

There is an entire political movement of Neufeudalism, that wants to use Neoliberal ideas of deregulation, dismantling of central governments and contracted slavery to reestablish feudal systems. Just that then the authority would not stem from title inheritance but from wealth inheritance. Subsequently many former feudal families in European countries try to reestablish themselves this way, for instance through political activities in fascist and far-right political movements.