> Now possibly part of the problem was that it was not a union for all software engineers but a general union for employees of many different jobs. That was th

> Now possibly part of the problem was that it was not a union for all software engineers but a general union for employees of many different jobs. That was the main problem. There is a reason that the writers and actors have separate unions -- because the have different needs. Heck, even the animation writers have a separate union from the live action writers because they have different needs. I imagine a proper coders union would look a lot like the screenwriters union. Minimum pay and benefits, but without the job protections for underperforms that so many dislike about unions, and the ability for top performers to get incredible pay.