From the official union website's list of values

> Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim.

For my eyes, that is absolutely dripping with progressive ideology. If I am going a union I want it to be non-political. This seems more like a progressive advocating group than a software workers guild. Count me out.

"Just outcomes" is a huge signal for prioritizing equity over equality. Other than the obvious political ramifications, it probably means high performers and low performers alike will both get the same outcome from a union, leading to mediocrity overall.

Simple. These other people never made such claims in an article.

Do people who don't publish their views not filled with ideological fervor?

This isn't an argument...

I believe the claim here is that, people should have rights to their own strong ideological opinions, but not the right to enforce their own upon others.

> Do people who don't publish their views not filled with ideological fervor?

I mean, that's pretty much exactly what fervour means? We'd never say "Joe is a fervent supporter of X!" if Joe never talked about X.

"We" would do, and frequently have done, just that if it supports "our" agenda. Hence the rise of the use of such broad brushes as "silence is complicity", etc.

Is "pragmatically want a return on investment" ideological fervor? Words need to mean something at some point.

The idea that a certain pattern of economic behaviors is "pragmatic", "non-ideological" and even "non-political", while others are, is in itself a good example of ideology.

In the same manner, is me not wanted to get mugged and my wallet stolen "ideological fervor"?

The silent downvotes I'm getting are part of the example.