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This would only work if you did it in scale. It would be hard to have someone negotiate just on your behalf, there is more strength in numbers. If you could g

• jedsmith 16y ago
  United Computer Nerds Local 0x55AA?
  • krakensden 16y ago
    Something about that name suddenly makes me want a union. Or maybe a t-shirt.
    • Natsu 16y ago
      Should get out the list of hex words that was posted to HN a while back. There have to be more interesting hex strings than 0x55AA.
      • metageek 16y ago
        0xDEADBEEF
• sethg 16y ago
  The two routes to that kind of arrangement would be to either organize your immediate co-workers into a union (http://www.cwa-union.org/pages/how_to_organize_a_union http://www.cwa-union.org/pages/how_to_organize_a_union) or to get together with colleagues and form a contracting firm.
• ohyes 16y ago
  The only problem with this is that then you would be negotiating on the merits of the entire group of employees, rather than the merits of your own work. If we take the 'order of magnitude of productivity' difference in programmers seriously, it seems that the best programmers would have a serious incentive not to join the union, were they actually able to negotiate proportional to their ability level. (Granted, they don't and it is unlikely you will find an employer willing to pay you 10x as much as one of your coworkers, so maybe it does make sense). Also, the governor of Wisconsin wouldn't stand for it, and the company would likely fire the lot of you as soon as you decided to unionize.