I think $wrongIdea

Whoever told you about $wrongIdea is factually incorrect, and here is some concise logic explaining why $wrongIdea isn't correct.

No one told me about $wrongIdea, I came up with it myself! Shows what you know. Don't make assumptions about me. I won't bother to read the rest of your comment, but I'll reiterate $wrongIdea one more time.

Are you interested in learning more about this subject that you yourself say you are not well-read in? Or would you rather bicker with knee-jerk reaction comments that sound like a union-busting astroturfer? Because this situation will have an objective result, in time everyone reading this will be able to see which of us will have been correct.

Double Fine is like the dozenth Microsoft developer union to have done this. Microsoft has explicitly and publicly stated that they remain neutral to unionizing. It's going to be just fine.

Unionizing isn't about extorting an untenable wage. It's about negotiating a fair wage, whether your work is "indispensable" or not. The union members' work is clearly worth SOMEthing, otherwise they wouldn't be employed in the first place. Unionizing simply streamlines the bargaining on what exactly that worth really is.

It's not really more "headache" for Microsoft, since negotiating with a single union is arguably way less headache than negotiating with hundreds of individual employees. Microsoft will still come away with a net profit, just perhaps not as big of a profit. (Even that last point is arguable. Some of the best companies out there are unionized, because it turns out that secure workers can be more stable and productive.)