In software, employers should see a union as a positive sign that their employees want the company to succeed. Otherwise, employees wouldn't put in the effort to start a union, they'd just hop to the next available job.
When skilled developers are as hard to find as they've been for my entire career, employers should be happy to see developers who care enough to stay and fight.
@roastbeest a lot of employees want this, too, if their stock option grant is well-written.
The presence of a union should also be seen as a positive by the company looking to buy, assuming they want to keep the employees and continue their projects. Acqi-hires are tricky with or without unions, and often involve promises of extra bonuses to employees that stay on ("golden handcuffs"). But that doesn't really change the equation for the original company.
@gdorn skilled developers with ethical preferences are actively threatening to the business model of almost every employer in tech. it's entirely unsurprising that they aren't welcomed. caring enough to fight is what they don't want.
@gdorn thank you for articulating this. but in many ways, tech companies are not interested in long term planning, it seems that getting bought by the next investment group is all the leadership really wants.