[DrBazza]

In a jobs market place of wide choice, unionization is unnecessary. The tech job pool spans multiple industries, so if your employer is treating you poorly, leave.

In a jobs market where there are few employers, maybe unionize, because those employers are essentially a monopsony. Hence, in the UK, the NHS, teaching, and public transport, where the employer is the Government, they're heavily unionized.

[eru]

Until fairly recently, the general public used to be very suspicious of government employees unionising. Because it was unionising against them, the general public.

[DrBazza]

In which country, the USA? In the UK, all Government bodies are unionized.

[eru]

The US was one of the countries I had in mind. Government workers are some of the most unionised of all industries there these days, but eg president FDR was staunchly against the practice.