Unions are for more than just getting higher pay. If Google (perish the thought) decided to pull some shady reviewing stunts and make your work life so intoler

Unions are for more than just getting higher pay. If Google (perish the thought) decided to pull some shady reviewing stunts and make your work life so intolerable that you felt your only option was to force the issue and threaten to resign - being part of a union could have helped with that. HR is a bunch of people who represent the company's interests in negotiations and transactions. Unions are the same thing for employees. We've been told, repeatedly, that unions are socialist organisations that want to destroy capitalisim and bankrupt employers. This isn't true.