The only Freemasonry I encountered was in Education, when the fairly forceful new Head of a primary school had a disagreement with two members of staff, whose husbands were Masons, as was the Chairman of the Governors. They threatened to have her suspended, and surprise, surprise she was, but at the subsequent hearing she was completely vindicated, and as was her right, chose to have the entire governing body removed and replaced. This caused some problems with the chairman, as he was also the vicar of the local church, and it was a Church school.
I moved on before the matter was fully resolved, but they were terrified it would get into the papers, and a lot of pressure was put on the vicar to step down.