"High-tech industry is not a monopoly." While that may be, employers in the same field with geographical vicinity are known to negotiate on shared terms of emp

"High-tech industry is not a monopoly." While that may be, employers in the same field with geographical vicinity are known to negotiate on shared terms of employment - in effect creating leverage over individual employees when negotiating the terms of their employment. A union may devolve to many things but one of the valuable facets are that it creates leverage for the employees against the employers. I don't have to like it, you don't have to like it but that is the way the market works. "still have to drag around these useless clowns that religiously observe their mandated 4 coffee breaks and time their arrival and departure with sub-second precision." I would have just used the words 'non-productive' - that amount of verbiage creates the feeling that there is non-spoken behavioural pattern that is used as the metric of an employeed value rather than the value they produce. Especially in high tech the moments when an employee actually performs value adding work can be spurious, unlike in lower tech industries like logging where the work you see is actually the work input you are getting.