So, this news is a few days late now, but my wife and I happened to do research into just about every labor strike (93 total) that has happened in 2021 (for a personal project) and just from what we were able to find, and within that context, unionization has helped workers more than it has hurt them. A bunch of the strikes this year came out of collective bargaining negotiations falling through and it really does seem like without union backing, most if not all of what unions/workers asked for would have been thrown out. There have been some strikes where unions didn't work out (a couple outside of the US where unions ended up folding to the government and one or two in the US where the unions were accused of making concessions too early, but the agreements they worked out still got passed by majority vote of the union, so it turned enough people in the end). By and large, the striking and therefore the unionization (because just about everywhere striking is illegal without unions) got employees much more than what they would have gotten had they been strong-armed by the companies they worked for. Now to be clear, we only came across a handful where unions got every single thing they asked for, but the vast majority got better deals than what the companies' "final offers" were before the strikes.Also, some people noted that it could be possible that the company ends up firing workers who try to unionize (which is almost always met with some NLRB reports) or more possibly the company fires/locks-out workers who strike after they do unionize and replace the workforce with strikebreakers/scabs. This is super uncommon, and generally only happens in the case where the workforce is blue-collar (Spectrum in NYC and Kellogg's). I honestly can't imagine that happening in positions like software/game development (should enough workers join the union instead of a small percentage of the workforce), because a lot of the bottom-line and stock valuation depends on workflow (and workforce replacement would put a huge hitch in that). Nothing's impossible, but it's highly unlikely. In a ton of cases where workers tend to vote against unionize, it always seems like the companies choose to make mass anti-union information campaigns, and in the case of Amazon, the company uses scare-tactics and borderline illegal tactics, like ballot box surveillance (which has yet to be definitively confirmed), in order to turn workers away from unionizing.For ActiBlizz workers, I hope they unionize, it has been long enough, and they aren't getting enough of what they're asking for. It seems like the company is beginning to melt around them, so now would be the perfect time (in order to actually get Blizzard to bend the knee). It also seems like game developers/software developers/VFX workers/etc. need better protections in general especially from overwork and harassment and unions by-and-large do a good job of ensuring those protections.