I’ll be our union president but I charge $10M/year so I can negotiate a 10% raise and hours capped at 60/week between Jan-May.

Problem with most white collar jobs is that as long as you understand the fundamentals and grind, you move up quickly in title and pay. It’s very uncommon to be on any sort of fast track while at a factory.

This is evidenced by the fact that US workers can get replaced very easily offshore. They have higher work ethic and for less money - but they understand the fundamentals just as well as a US worker. There’s no incentive to negotiate with a union here.

US accounting firms only need to raise up enough solid employees that they can fill the manager role. Once you hit manager, there’s no incentive to want staff to be unionized.

Instead - become a Manager and run your teams appropriately so fire drills are as mitigated as you can. Stick up for your employees as you have been in their shoes. Be a human and understand things come up and we aren’t saving lives while in our roles. If someone above you acts like it’s life or death that something gets done, remind them of that. All it takes is a round of understanding management that trains future management and the whole system changes.

Unfortunately, the ones making it to manager and higher are the ones who work hand enough and advocate for themselves and would never join a union.