[logfromblammo]

So long as you don't say the "u" word....~

A lot of specialist workers need to get together and rebuild their labor cartels. The pendulum has swung very far from center, and it needs to be pushed back a bit.

As it is now, very few specialists have enough clout to arrest the current momentum, and software professionals, hardware professionals, healthcare workers, and engineers are likely the only ones that wouldn't be scoffed out of the room if they threatened a general strike.

The good times should last quite a few years before the new unions become too corrupt to be worth keeping. But after that, we still might be able to keep the 6-hour workday and obligatory foos-pong tables.

[bobby_9x]

"As it is now, very few specialists have enough clout to arrest the current momentum, and software professionals, hardware professionals, healthcare workers, and engineers are likely the only ones that wouldn't be scoffed out of the room if they threatened a general strike."

..and why would they strike? This group is probably in the top 10% of workers paid in the US.

I find it a little strange that a group that has the most power, money, and benefits even thinks about striking.

[Apocryphon]

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Not to mention, unions/professional associations for doctors, lawyers, etc.

[bobby_9x]

Software developers already have the best benefits, a union will not be an improvement.

[logfromblammo]

Well, they wouldn't. Collective bargaining is dead in the US. The only ones with any real ability to reverse that are too content to use that power.