I suppose more time off would be nice, but then I would become lazy and complain about my contract all the time. The fundamental problem would be that unions attempt to make all workers equal which really takes away the desire to elevate your abilities since there really is no reason to, being average generates the same amount of money.

I don't know who only gives 2 weeks of vacation in the US that is past a year or two of experience, I have been places that have 2 weeks vacation and 2 weeks of sick leave. Most treat sick leave as something to have for "mental health days" . We have a good amount of holidays, if you work for gov't there is one every few weeks. Nothing close to Europe however.

Unions would do for tech what they did for the auto industry. When I am laid off, I can get full pay and go sit in the union hall and read the paper.