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Who says it has to be an according-to-Hoyle union? The NLRA covers all concerted organized action. Start a professional association. The doctors and lawyers have them. We don't get one? Why?

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There's the ACM and IEEE already though?

The ACM is an academic association. The IEEE should be more important professionally than it is; one problem with the IEEE is that you have to have a related bachelors degree to join.

Developers should start a new organization that represents the interests of employees of the technology industry.

Those things mostly exist to collect membership fees and run conferences.

That’s interesting. I figure we’re more like PEs than MDs or JDs.

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