Totally agree. While I am traditionally anti-union (I have seen too many rubber-room situations and ridiculousness,) SAG or the WGA are actually good models for

Totally agree. While I am traditionally anti-union (I have seen too many rubber-room situations and ridiculousness,) SAG or the WGA are actually good models for software engineers. It recognizes minimums, but doesn’t have maximums and “merit” is determined by whatever the market is willing to pay. So a superstar first time writer can make millions of their script warrants it, while journeyman script re-writes are assured getting paid scale. The teachers unions are exactly the opposite: you get more pay for seniority and the implication is that seniority necessarily means “more valuable” when that isn’t necessarily the case. Although I am economically very far right, I could get behind a WGA model for software devs. I would be happy to join such an organization. But a teachers union style union.. no way.