In addition to pay, a union would also give employees some practical muscle if, say, the company decided to deal with sexual harassment by paying the perpetrator a giant sum of money to go away instead of following up and seeing the situation through to some justice.

Damn straight, or more autonomy over your work environment, less crunch time, freedom to choose wfh outside pandemic conditions? I've literally never worked anywhere that couldn't be improved in one dimension or another, which is kind of what unionization is about for workers.

Pay might be high, but it has not kept up with the increases in cost of living and inflation over the last 20 years, especially in big cities like SF or NYC.

Also, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all colluded with one another to keep tech worker compensation below its market value[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...