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Hm... I worked at a bookstore once that was a union shop (UAW, of all things). The only issue I had with it was the general spinelessness of most of the members -- kind of makes the whole thing pointless if you won't take a properly adversarial view of management. :-)
There are reasons unions came into existence. Whether those reasons still apply to the original cradles, or they ever applied or will apply to the high-tech industries most of us work in (per the What We Do survey a couple weeks ago), is highly debateable--and so unlikely to be resolved either way.
