I'm curious how this will turn out. Unions of tech workers are unusual, because tech workers tend to change jobs every 2 years. There are few - if any - long-term tech jobs that would benefit from the usual union protections... overwork, pay scales, job retention, etc.

I mean if you are a Bluetooth engineer and the product line drops their Bluetooth feature and goes with NFC instead... typical union protections could force the company to keep the Bluetooth feature, or else keep paying you even if your skills are no longer relevant to the product you were working on.

Tech workers at a retail store double-down on all of those issues... these are not "careers", they are "jobs" people work for a short time - usually less than 3 years - and move on to another job.

So now you are working in Marketing at a dotcom startup...

1. What does your Apple Retail Store Union membership get you?

2. Why would they even allow you to stay in the union if you weren't working at an Apple Store?

3. What benefits did you accrue in your 2 years as an Apple Store Genius that is going to help you when you retire?

I'm optimistic that young tech people are unionizing. And I look forward to how they refresh and rebuild the union model from the grift/strongarm/mafia organizations they currently are, into something that benefits both the workers and companies in tech industry roles.