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> They can leave and find another job easily.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31818323

> why should employees bother?

Perhaps they care about the mission. Perhaps they care about the customers. Perhaps they want to ensure the work they've been working on was not made in vain. You seem to see work as purely satisfying the lower ranks of Maslow's hierarchy, but for many workers it is also a means of self-actualization.

> If a union was able to shift the strategy of a company, what happens if they are wrong and it bankrupts the company.

And what if management or the owners do that? How about giving someone else involved in the endeavor a try?

> They have no skin in the game.

They literally have skin in the game?