[GauntletWizard]

I feel like I would be scabbing if I ever joined a union. The minimal Workers rights are something that society should collectively bargain for; anything beyond that is selling out the rest of humanity for the in-group. You should collaborate with your coworkers, sure, and make sure accurate (if aggregated) salary information is available, but getting a union to represent you basically screws you - the union has leverage on you more than it gives you on your employer. A union is a corporation that you've given a monopoly on your time - Do you expect that to work out well in even a slightly employer-favoring market?

[bobwaycott]

The labor market always favors employers. Ideally, one would love for market conditions to also be favorable to wage-earners, but the market is never not favoring employers because it is laborers who must sell their labor time or starve/die. There is no labor market in which laborers are even mostly favored, or happily surviving and living without selling their labor time. Unions exist as a means to ensure the labor market is not entirely employer-favoring because laborers must sell their labor time or starve—which places them at an automatic disadvantage and maintains employer power in the market. Employers want to pay as little as possible for labor, while maintaining their power over laborers—which is why they’re either openly hostile to unions or (if they’re smarter like, say, tech companies) act in their own best interest by treating employees in ways they believe will prevent unions from being seen as necessary.