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The undead have a very different goal than any of the Chaos gods
Kemmler is the only undead related character who is friendly with Chaos.
Mid-tier undead´s souls are bound, and can as such not offer them up to the gods, and low tier undead don´thave sould at all.
Also most sentient undead lack emotions, and as such cannot offer up anything to the gods of chaos.
Furthermore it should be mentioned that Nagash, the founder of all necromancy, a being of near godlike powers himself (though dormant in this game) desires a lifeless world where only he and his own servants lead eternal unlives.
I.E. A world without souls to sell and emotions to fuel the existences of the gods, meaning Chaos wants to wipe him and his kind out as much as they want to wipe their followers out.
The End Times nonsense contained a whole bunch of nonsense, but the undead fighting alongside humanity to repel chaos, that bit makes sense.
It makes sense that eventually the end-goals of the two factions are just too far apart for them to ever really get along; also nice to see that factions are actually motivated by their own goals in this way rather than just a large and united 'bad' versus 'good' which you often see in fantasy games as well.
Lets start at the tippity top.
Nagash utterly hates chaos. This is the same person who, when mortal, hated his own gods, shattered the contract between his own people (the Tomb Kings) and the gods. He is all about being the one in charge and control and Chaos is an antagonist to that goal.
In the End Times he took action knowing the Chaos gods were about to make a move so decided to finish what he started and gobble up the weakened Tomb King gods in an attempt to go toe to toe with them (but suffered setbacks because the whole point of the End Times was to destroy the WFB world).
Vampires, for an example, consider themselves apex predators. They mostly carry with them same egotism of Nagash, furthermore they need blood to survive and daemons do not provide said sustenance. It would be similar to an invading force killing off all food production.
That said, during the End Times Walach Harkon did sell out him and his blood dragons to Khorne after charging headlong on the other side of a barrier that was to be setup to prevent the chaos invasion. Essentially by doing so cutting himself off from any support or retreat and thus faced with an unwinnable situation sold himself.
Tomb King, pre End Times, followed the will of their weak gods and paid as much service to Settra to not incur his wrath. Chaos is again contrary to their own existence and survival as it would mean the further dismemberment of their culture, society and rule.
Individual necromancers tend to mostly follow in suit with Nagash, their own authority and power before suffering any other beings though Heinrich Kemmler did make a pact with the chaos gods to restore his power that had waned drastically in his age, and defeats. He essentially became a double agent of sorts as time went on, with the lore reflecting that Krell followed Kemmler not because he was under his control but he was urged by Nagash to keep an eye on the rogue liche master.
The Undead in warhammer tend to follow a very Schopenhauer or Nitzschean-esque philosophy regarding Will to Power. It isn't some god or collective of people that gives one power but the individual essence and drive of the person that does.
lastly, their is the beloved Harry the Hammer who was a follower of chaos that held a strong disdain for the Undead as a whole and made his voice rather well known on the subject with lots of hammering.
On that note: While Chaos can't corrupt undead the usual way, they can still promise a deal that would sound somewhat appealing... that's the Wallach and Settra thing from End Times. Isabella was corrupted by Nurgle, but that was down to special circumstances (she was dead when that happen, and it was more of her corpse possessed by a daemon)... and notably, Nurgle hates undead. Necromancers like Kemmler, who as a general rule are NOT undead, are just as vulnerable as anyone else.
At best, I'd say chaos regards the undead with disinterest solely because they don't have much interest to chaos (no souls, no worshippers, etc).
Believe it or not, Dark Elves and Greenskins are also part of their own separate Order, the Order of Destruction.
As for in the lore, there's not much mention of it. Notably, Krell - the norscan chaos lord turned into Kemmler's best undead buddy, and Luther Harkon's crew is mostly norscans. They're chaos - he's not, and undeath again trumps allegiance to chaos.
As those examples show - as far as the vampires are concerned, chaos are good minions, not allies. And chaos, while they don't generally seek out vampires, will fight vampires, and not ally with them.
In the first 'end times' - the one where the players decided the outcome through many tournaments across the world - Chaos invaded Sylvania and basically switched to a very shambling gait afterwards.
The other end times doesn't count.
That's not a thing in Warhammer.
I'm not a specialist in that topic, but it's a thing however only in Warhammer online: age of Reckoning. It's set in its own alternate timeline/reality.
So yeah in main common Warhammer fantasy lore (so also in this game) it's not true. Orkz and dark elves don't form a faction/order together.
Forces of Destruction in WAR also included Chaos, so even then, it does not fit. Also, no Forces of Death.
Age of Sigmar has its own Grand Alliances (Order (sigmarines & co.), Death (Nagash's minions), Destruction (orcs, ogres... ahem, Orruks, Ogors...), Chaos (as usual)), but that's also not relevant to Warhammer
The ONLY faction the Undead would always oppose is Chaos regardless if it benefited them or not, though they would work WITH any of the other races if the chance arose and it benefited their endgoals.
Oh and ofc they always opposed Skaven after the Great Betrayal as since then its down they lust after warpstone which in theory is claimed by Nagash himself (all of it, on the whole world)