Unions are what you want them to be, just like any other constructed organization. Just like there are many types of businesses (e.g. partnerships, LLC, 501(c)(

Unions are what you want them to be, just like any other constructed organization. Just like there are many types of businesses (e.g. partnerships, LLC, 501(c)(3), etc), which can be further refined with their charter for specific goals, a union can be defined for whatever purpose you want. If some of the traditional uses for a union may not be needed in the software industry, it could still be very useful to charter a different type of union. Something like a very minimal union that simply had the goal of protecting against really big things like the recent scandal about cartel-style limiting of salaries. A union that - by it's own charter - only concerns itself with that kind of thing would be very low cost, and would serve to discourage that kind of abuse from happening in the first place. Arguments for or against unions are useless without first defining what you mean by "union".