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Software engineers tend to be pretty anti-union (or at least, union-agnostic).

This is among the kinds of protections unions grant industry professionals in other industries.

Yeah I think this ties into not only the fact that we are highly paid, but also how unions generally form. When everyone works at a factory and have similar positions, you can stand outside and hand out flyers and have face to face conversations. With programmers, you might have a few others on your team that match your job description, then PMs, managers, designers, etc. Imagine trying to get a portion of the engineers at a midsize company together and you won't even have enough power to do anything but get yourselves fired.

To me, this is why if you want a more ethically bound software industry, you need regulation, not unionization.

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