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The main issue is enforcement and defining union busting. If I declare tomorrow, an attempt to unionize at my work and no one joins me, and the boss fires me, what then? Who has my back? It's my word against the company, and I doubt the NLRB has the resources or teeth to help me a single employee of a middle sized company.
Literally happened twice in 3 months at the FAANG adjacent security company I work at, and it played out exactly like this. Management said that they were deemed "insider threat risks" and terminated, each within a week of publicly declaring intentions to try and unionize.
I'm not even in a position that unionizing would even benefit me, and I wouldn't want to join one in my current role, but it's so blatantly obvious bullshit what companies can get away with.