Good. Most tech unions are worthless and only accelerate outsourcing. Unions can be good though, like in construction where the work is inherently dangerous.
This is just silly. Management are the most accountable people in any organization. This makes no sense.
In my experience, management rarely has any sort of reverse checks in place. The closest is employee manager feedback. Which this demand
> Guarantee ability to safely express dissent
Makes me think that staff has been trained not to share true feelings on such feedback.
I have never worked a place where management was even remotely held accountable for their decisions, their corruption, their abuse of power or their fecklessness.
Unions now; unions tomorrow; unions forever.
What's wrong with outsourcing? That's what we do with all our bad ideas. Need to blow leaves from one side of the street to the other? Get a Mexican to do it. This frees up people to have better ideas, like well written articles that don't have a hundred irrelevant links littering the page.