Competition is insurance against that, too.
Alas, unions can have their own principal-agent problems and bureaucracy and hubris.
Alas, unions can have their own principal-agent problems and bureaucracy and hubris.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
And still people trust management...
The automovotive market used to have garage based startups a long time ago. It used to have fierce competition and workers could get pay raises without unions.
Then gradually everything fell under 3 big companies, workers fought the concentration of market power by unionizing (and lost) and for decades there was just the big 3.
It's not even a question of if or even who tech will consolidate under any more - it will be someone who is currwently a household name. It is when.
It's coming.
In complicated situations it may be that you want more than one insurance against bad things happening.
I'd just be against being forced to join unions, or against giving unions any special legal privileges.
(Eg one such privilege would be not enforcing contract clauses about employees giving up their right to strike in exchange for some pre-agreed compensation.)