Quitting to start your own business is lauded in the annals of Americana because it positively reinforces certain tenets capitalism that are valued by the ruling class.

Organizing a labor union however is vilified in American society as it directly challenges the inherent class structure of capitalism. Workers in the past have been beaten, murdered, and imprisoned not because they sought better pay and more amicable working hours, but because they dared to challenge the success and profit of the classes above them.

Which is why a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative is a more ethically-defensible way to organize humans.

Or pretty much any business model where all the laborers share in any profits by the collective.

Are there any notable tech coops?