Have you ever been in a union?
> "...pout over not getting enough money"
You're trying to make striking sound childish but there are plenty of legitimate reasons why unions go on strike.
> "...pout over not getting enough money"
You're trying to make striking sound childish but there are plenty of legitimate reasons why unions go on strike.
No. There is a reason I went into software development and not blue-collar work. ;)
(Nothing wrong with it, just not the stuff I want to deal with. Unions included. I lose enough money already to the gov't.)
I have been in a union before (nearly a decade of industrial electrician/power plant operator work before I obtained my CS degree). You bet there is corruption in some unions, but perhaps it is different in the "skilled trades" though, at least it seems that way from my personal experience.
Avoiding blue collar work is a primary motivation for my transition to full time software dev...we'll see how it turns out though because the office culture/work environment is very foreign to me in many ways.
I'm not sure how it would work to have a union that can essentially fork itself whenever the leadership goes bad, or even one that has no leadership to begin with, and manages everything with a consensus/compromise algorithm.