You want collective bargaining to do negotiations for you. Let me ask you this. Do you think that without a union negotiating for you the company is going to give you something out of the goodness of their hearts? Most white collar employees are look down upon unions because they view collective bargaining for the blue collars or for low class labor. They feel that they can gain more by negotiating terms on their own. Plus white collar employees have more access to office enviroments where they see their bosses more, and feel they can gain something out of their own hard efforts. Blue collar employees are more on the front lines, away from offices and the people that give them raises, so they fare better with collective bargaining to do their negotiations for them. But alot of blue collar jobs have gone overseas and white collar workers have been growing way more rapidly than blue collar workers, but they seem to refuse to join unions. Only 5 percent. Go figure. It's a fact that most union jobs PAY MORE MONEY, up to 2 times more than non union jobs. They're not perfect, but look at this. MOST GOVERNMENT JOBS ARE UNIONIZED IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR. Post office, IRS, you name it..... I think you're missing the boat if you don't join a union at an airlines with so many employees involved. And expect friction once the company knows youre going union. They'll do whatever they can to persuade you not to do it. This is ongoing since the birth of America. Unions and anti-unions.