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I associate unions with homogenized labor, stratus of equivalent positions, but we’re all too unique 10x butterflies for that. I mean, what part of your career
by euroclydon 8y ago
I associate unions with homogenized labor, stratus of equivalent positions, but we’re all too unique 10x butterflies for that. I mean, what part of your career arc would have been better served in a unionized environment?
- tptacek 8y agoWho says it has to be an according-to-Hoyle union? The NLRA covers all concerted organized action. Start a professional association. The doctors and lawyers have them. We don't get one? Why?
- euroclydon 8y agoThat’s interesting. I figure we’re more like PEs than MDs or JDs.
- RandomOpinion 8y agoThere's the ACM and IEEE already though?
- tptacek 8y agoThe ACM is an academic association. The IEEE should be more important professionally than it is; one problem with the IEEE is that you have to have a related bachelors degree to join. Developers should start a new organization that represents the interests of employees of the technology industry.
- pvg 8y agoThose things mostly exist to collect membership fees and run conferences.
- antt 8y agoUnions are one way. Guilds are another. For people who are supposedly so highly paid the majority of my peers can't afford children. The rent of a two bedroom flat/house and the price of daycare means the household needs to earn close to $600,000/y for two children. That's maybe the top 10% in most companies. If a class in society can't afford to reproduce itself it is underpaid regardless of how many trinkets it can afford compared to the median.
- snowwrestler 8y agoPeople forget how much of entertainment is unionized. Like, Lebron James and Aaron Rodgers are members of their unions. Tom Cruise is a member of a union. Steven Spielberg is in a union.
- sjg007 8y agoYour retirement and your healthcare would probably be better in a union.