If we take anecdotal experiences as useful, then the fact that you're getting downvoted is anecdotal evidence that more people have had positive experiences wit

If we take anecdotal experiences as useful, then the fact that you're getting downvoted is anecdotal evidence that more people have had positive experiences with unions, and your experiences are just unfortunate outliers (and anything big enough to make Hacker News is big enough to have a lot of outliers) Since your whole goal is to share anecdotal data, I'd assume you'd be more responsive to receiving such data.