Groups like IEEE and the ACM don't do what professional associations / unions / "guilds" do... help regulate / moderate employer behaviour in a given industry.

Groups like IEEE and the ACM don't do what professional associations / unions / "guilds" do... help regulate / moderate employer behaviour in a given industry. Of course those associations are always a mixed bag, often fostering some mediocrity or being themselves corrupt. But definitely feel like there's some aspect of that missing in our sector.