A coder's guild has certainly crossed my mind, in the past, rather than a union. However, to a certain extent, we already have these in non-official forms, faci

A coder's guild has certainly crossed my mind, in the past, rather than a union. However, to a certain extent, we already have these in non-official forms, facilitated by the web. Groups of websites (e.g., HN, r/programming and StackOverflow) have core users and, although transient and unwritten, that's effectively the same deal; just a modern, open reimplementation.