Isn’t there still an adversarial relationship between non-union labor and management?
So the story goes: Management wants to pay as little as possible for the most work and labor wants to get paid as much as possible for the least amount of work?
Well for example, at Netflix, management specifically paid extra for good labor and offered interesting problems, and in return we did extra work because we were motivated by the interesting problems and the great co-workers.
And at Google back in the day, they gave significantly more benefits than necessary to attract great talent.
So no, I'd say it's possible to create a non-adversarial workplace. The trick is keeping it that way as it grows, which is usually when unions come in.
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Or how, when the pandemic hit, people realized even with all the perks a Google/Apple campus gives you it was still preferable to stay at home, or even move to a more preferable place, and avoid the tour bus commute? Not to mention the lack of transparency in pay which will stagger individual negotiation efforts when employers apply, or attempt to apply, a WFH tax.