I never understand employees who do want to unionize. Ok that's not entirely true, I get that unions can help guide a one-shot prisoner's dilemma to cooperate-

I never understand employees who do want to unionize. Ok that's not entirely true, I get that unions can help guide a one-shot prisoner's dilemma to cooperate-cooperate. But those are increasingly rare in a broad economy. My main objection is that I don't want to be part of a group that claims to "represent me", if I want a representative I'll appoint one myself. My secondary objection is that I don't want to be entangled in a legal structure where people far away can determine that because of such-and-such the union is going on strike and I'm not allowed to perform my job even if I want to. My third objection is for software related fields specifically, that a union will raise the barrier to entry, which so far has been kept incredibly low for the betterment of many people who came up from lower-middle class or lower and has allowed the field to expand to meet supply and across a pretty distributed set of locations.