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by myspider 2240 days ago
An obvious problem was offshoring and arguably the unions contributed to that by making US manufacturing more expensive.

Every so often someone suggests that software engineers should unionize. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I think that it would be the best thing that ever happened to Bangalore. I worry about all our jobs ending up in Bangalore eventually, I'm just hoping I can make it to retirement before that happens.

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What about international worker's unions?
That is hard to imagine. If the site I've linked below is accurate, the average salary of a SW engineer in Bangalore is $20k. Glassdoor says the average salary in Silicon Valley is $112. ( which seems low to me ) Even with COL adjustments I'm not sure how you'd get both sides to agree on a 'fair' amount.

https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/bangalore-india