> How would you keep the baseline protections reasonable enough so every startup and tech department would be proud to support it?
It would take a few years of back and forth of negotiation. Of course not all organizations would have employees may necessarily be part of it.
Holywood is a 'closed shop' where you basically need to be in the union / guild, but that is not true in every industry.
I'm in Ontario, Canada where a lot of car OEMs have plants: the Detroit Three plants are all unionized AFAICT. However the Cambridge Toyota plant is not: the CAW has been asking the employees for a while, but they always said 'no'. Seems that Toyota has a different mindset towards their employees.
Similarly Air Canada has been unionized with pilots for a while, but WestJet (~Southwest) only recently unionized: turns out the pilots there were tired of crap.
I see a lot of ‘Made in NY’ startups, even open source stuff use that brand, it feels like developer community is ripe for something like this.