| Actors have a union because they are commodity workers, which is my point. Software developers are not commodity workers. Profs, Nurses and Doctors have what are essentially guilds, where they set very special standards of accreditation and control who can enter and not their industry. The later two literally limit access to their field by law, partly to control wages. All 3 of those professions are socialized in most countries, meaning they arrive at salaries by non-market terms. The later 2 are in healthcare where there is a humanist component making non-market factors essential. Marketers, Accountants, various kinds of Engineers, Lawyers, Financial Analysts etc. - why don't they have unions? Because it makes no sense. They have industry associations for varying reasons, where it makes sense. Amazon, Walmart - those are places where unions would make sense, for the floor and factory workers and possibly some admin staff, but not for the professional class. |