> And if they do promise that maybe at best it’s their marketing PR and at worst look what communism did in Russia. Good grief, really? We're pivoting from uni

> And if they do promise that maybe at best it’s their marketing PR and at worst look what communism did in Russia. Good grief, really? We're pivoting from unions directly to Soviet communism? The advantage of a union is collective bargaining. If I, on my own, ask my employer to alter the layout of their building so that I might have a private office they're quite likely to say no. And not unjustifiably - altering the entire floorplan of the office to accommodate one person is kind of an unreasonable request. But if all us employees sat down and decided that we all wanted private offices - or the option of a private office - our request to the company is a lot more reasonable. And no individual employee is going to be singled out as a problematic troublemaker. Plus it's a lot more difficult for the company to say no.