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> Real engineers have unions. I'm pretty sure that's not true, and in fact one of the distinctions about a professional is that he doesn't belong to a union: h

• argv_empty 10y ago
  A professional is in sort of a weird position union-wise though. He often is part of some organization of professionals. That organization doesn't negotiate one employment contract for all (or even large portions of) its members, but it does have a lot of sway over whether he can be hired in that profession and give him a convenient higher power to support his refusal to commit some sort of professional misconduct. "Union" definitely has the wrong connotation though.
• emodendroket 10y ago
  Not really. There are unions for jobs like writing and teaching I'd consider pretty squarely "professional."