Nothing serious, but the general consensus online is that it would be the smart thing to do. Note the keyword online. Given that I frequented Reddit and now Lemmy, there's obviously a bias.

UK people were kinda drunk on their former glory and didn't quite notice that basically everyone worth considering (US, EU, China) has the upper hand when dealing with them alone. Realistically speaking, they'll have to join EU (or its successor) eventually if they want to stay relevant. We might be talking 10 years, 20 years, 50 or even 100. If I personally had to guess, it's gonna be 20 to 40 years.

Edit: Forgot to mention that UK had a lot of exceptions because they joined quite early where they had a lot more political strength over the union. When they join, they'll have to do it by the same rules as everyone else without exceptions which many of them are salty about (meaning those who are generally pro-rejoin but not under the same rules as other countries).

Are you sure your union isn't helping? No union is going to be run by miracle workers, but that doesn't mean they don't improve conditions. I can't say for sure, but I suspect this sentiment is part of why union membership fell apart in the 20th century "well my union doesn't do anything for me anyways."

Like democracy, unions do require some upkeep via people stepping up. If you don't like how your union is performing, you could consider becoming a rep (admittedly based on my limited understanding as a non-union employee).

It seems like they collect the data from big tech and not directly from the users.

"Just bycatch we accidentally got while investigating stuff in Microsoft & Facebook".

Mfw you think mass surveillance is so scary