No you don't. Your union bargains away your value and your only option is to not vote yes to the contract only to have them tell you its the best you can get and the majority votes for it. Most of the time your representatives don't want to rock the vote and work to protect themselves more than you. Your just a worker to them, they see themselves on the same level with the people they negotiate with, not you.

Your hyperbole doesn't provide any real reason to form a union other than you don't like where you work. Honestly go somewhere else. Really. You won't be happy after a union gets there and likely you will be paying dues equivalent to an hour or more a month to be a member.

anecdotal part comesnext Having been a member of a union shop before and having quite a few family in the Midwest I would switch employers or careers before creating or joining one. I cannot for the life of me equate professional and union in the same sentence.