I was a member of three different unions before I ever switched careers to tech and being able to (and expected to) negotiate my own contracts was one of the bi

I was a member of three different unions before I ever switched careers to tech and being able to (and expected to) negotiate my own contracts was one of the biggest factors in me ending up in this industry. I have certainly made orders of magnitude more money and under substantially better conditions. My experiences in unions were awful and I would never go back to that.