In Google one could work to make 2x to 3x more than the next person - is that will possible with a union?
Seems like in jobs where individual talent / skills matter, a union is by definition harmful (unless you’re in the lower 50%).
Collective action / protest works fine, though, for establishing baselines. If giving employees what they want is cheaper than firing all of them and hiring a fresh batch, it should always work fine.
Professional athlete unions would be a counterexample, I believe. It really depends on how the union is structured. I doubt a union for high paid tech workers would be structured the same way as one for blue collar labourers.
Personally I find us far more alike other industries than unlike.
We're a new industry but we're still full of people of all types sizes and emotional colours.
A lot of people only associate unions with factory workers kind of jobs, it’s not. Think of journalists or performing actors unions for instance.
I wouldn't be surprised to see similar clauses in other union constitutions for fields in which, like tech, there's a large and obvious talent dispersion. I think a majority-rule approach would inevitably lead to the anti-meritocratic policies you're imagining.
[1] https://www.sagaftra.org/files/2015_1002_sag-aftra_constitut...
It's the same idea. Workers doing things collectively.