Because they are values-driven organizations with limited budgets, non-profits tend to pay their (non-executive, non-rockstar) employees poorly and are prone to becoming toxic fiefdoms.

evacide

Because they are values-driven organizations with limited budgets, non-profits tend to pay their (non-executive, non-rockstar) employees poorly and are prone to becoming toxic fiefdoms. Unionizing your workers pushes against both of those tendencies. Just sayin'.

Chema Hernández Gil

The flip side is that some non-profits fight tooth and nail to prevent unionization, taking the very worst of the corporate world and using it against said badly-paid, overworked workers, often with public funds. See the example below, here in SF.

The solution is clear to me: non-profits, especially those receiving public funds, must have meaningful worker (and client!) representation on their boards of directors.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11940014/inside-the-long-uphill-battle-to-unionize-workers-at-one-bay-area-nonprofit