Pretty sure a union could not have protected her from getting fired for using privileged access to circumvent her leadership and deploy a non-business related software change out of a personal grievance with her employer.  Being in a union does not give you the right to abuse your privilage, and if it does, then it’s…

Fair.

I work in tech and trust me there’s more to it than a big mean company shitting on the little guy here.

“As the article says she got approval and her code was reviewed before it was pushed...”

She put unauthorized code on the company’s intranet? It’s early so maybe I misread, but of not nothing after this really matters.