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Unions are extremely effective at solving what they were meant to solve,

There’s a reason Tom Brady is part of the NFL players association.

There’s a reason Tom Cruise is in the Screen Actors Guild.

These superstars join unions but engineers think they have’s negotiation power because they practiced leetcode.

Doctors have the American medical association. Lawyers have the ABA. Meanwhile the ACM releases some academic guidance.

Your comment says “we don’t need collective bargaining or organized labor” then says “we need society wide change that organized labor is most effective at implementing “.

Most programmers are convinced collective bargaining is a bad thing because of repeated propaganda from corporate America that highlights the worst parts of collective bargaining while ignoring that it’s virtually the only tool for advancing any sort of labor rights in any industry.

In a free money bull market perhaps it didn’t matter. But watching how Elon can turn Twitter into squid games and YCombinator can coach all their companies to discard you the second investors demand it should be a wakeup call. They don’t care if you are “default alive” in a recession. A union would.