Staff being subordinate to management in an organizational sense is one thing. Staff members being forbidden even to approach anything, which might grow into a

Staff being subordinate to management in an organizational sense is one thing. Staff members being forbidden even to approach anything, which might grow into a discussion of how and where management's interests are actively inimical to their own, is quite another. You're making the best arguments for unionization I've heard in the tech industry for quite a long time.