[nrook]

Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union.

You can negotiate alone, but you have much less bargaining power that way. There's a reason the big tech companies all work together on their side of this negotiation (colluding with other employers to lower salaries, all doing layoffs at the same time, etc.): it works.

[brightlancer]

> Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union.

In states without Right-to-work laws, once the union is in place, employees are NOT able to freely pool with other employees, they're restricted to pooling with ALL of the union members in that shop, or even multiple shops.