Re^2: Should Programmers Unionize?

[apl]

It's official: I disagree with myself. Protections are needed for those new to the field, as well as for those who are sufficiently old that they worry about keeping themselves curent with emerging technologies. Unions have been the traditional guardians of both groups.

If there's one thing the Bush Administration has proven it's that Economic Darwinism should not be the philosophy of a society.

So I don't know if we should be unionized or not. I regret wasting two nodes...

[apl]

I love thinking about this question. One benefit of a union was the ability to strike, to stop work, to physically prevent access to tools and raw materials so that the Product could not be mnanufactured.

How would Programmers strike? Management would disable our ability to remotely log in (locking us out), but how could we prevent others from being given remote access, as well as access to the development environment, source code, etc.?

In other words, how could a union for Programmers be effective?

[chaos_cat]

Have the SysAdmin union strike in solidarity, and refuse to grant any new account requests, clearly. :)