Ah. My ideas of labor unions presented here are in fact strange, because they have been narrowed (for the purposes of this discussion) to the perspective of "th

Ah. My ideas of labor unions presented here are in fact strange, because they have been narrowed (for the purposes of this discussion) to the perspective of "the union exists to protect your interests against rampant Taylorism imposed from the management, in the same way that Agile is posited in The Article to protect programmers from something analogous." While labor unions' members may in fact be best off under a scenario such as you describe in yourpost#2, that's not a grand example of a case where you can say "we need a labor union to protect our interests from management or our lives will be made miserable by exploitation" and seems not to relate to the issues raised by the article.