[kwyjobojoe]

Every highly paid software dev doesn't see the point of unions until they get screwed over by management.

USA has this really perverse view that unions are about dragging everyone down to the level of the worst employee, demanding money and gangsta standover men.

Most unions are about having someone in your corner when the big bad company decides to step on little old you. It's about having legal backing so some bro startup lord can't make your life a misery because you objected to him sexually harassing you.

I've worked at large dev companies, and had to put up with years of bullshit, team cuts, denied payrises because of other teams not getting their shit down, seeing teams lauded for breaking the rules then other teams threatened with firing for copying the favoured teams, teams gutted to make blackops groups for whatever stupid idea an exec currently likes then the originals teams getting no bonuses because they can't keep up. The vast majority of people in charge in software are selfish jerks, whether they are born again coders or mba suits brought in to increase profits. Unions are there so you are not alone

Now I work in one of the most unionised organisations in the country. Management might still be bastards, but I have thousands people on my side.