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It really depends on which unions you look at. When people hear "union," they think of Teamsters and autoworkers and elementary school teachers. But Steven Spi
by snowwrestler 6y ago
It really depends on which unions you look at. When people hear "union," they think of Teamsters and autoworkers and elementary school teachers.
But Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Lebron James, and Tom Brady are all examples of union members too.
- marcinzm 6y agoWhat a software engineer union would be like depends on who you ask. Thus the risk as no one agrees and thus the result would be a crap shoot. Worse, it'd become a political situation so even if it starts aiming for A the movement may be hijacked to cause B. For example, many people mention preventing things such as unexpected PIPs and firings which sounds a lot more like teamsters than a guild.
- mrep 6y agoThose unions aren't specific to one company/team though and are mainly to set pay floors because they work in a glamorous industry that people are desperate to get into and so they are used to raise the people outside of the competitive spotlight pay in the industry. If you want to start an non-company specific union for developers, by all means, start one but I see no reason to join it considering the only reason people are desperate to be developers is because it pays well.