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SWEs are overcompensated, and offering big companies a single lever (the leadership of a sector-wide labor union) to push against all of us would be only too ha

• JeffSnazz 3y ago
  SWEs are overcompensated? How do you figure? The revenue figures per-engineer tell the exact opposite story. > the leadership of a sector-wide labor union) to push against all of us would be only too handy for them; negotiations would have nowhere to go but down. I literally cannot follow this train of thought—surely, having a single collective negotiator is the only way to prevent this exact scenario. Regardless, you seem to be conflating regular unions with trade unions. They're different, they serve different roles—arguably, I think we need trade unions far more than regular ones if we want to do anything useful as a country in the next few decades—but in all situations having a single-negotiator is the only way to stop engineers from being pitted against each other.
  • bsdpufferfish 3y ago
    > I literally cannot follow this train of thought Can you point to a single union that operates this way for highly compensated professionals? Unions discourage performance based compensation and measurement in favor of credentials and seniority.