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I am an immigrant from a country with very strong unions. I would never ever join one in the US. I don’t want my labor to go to the union leadership elite caste that inevitably takes power and lives in luxury while salaries get depressed across the board in the name of equality. Imagine having to have a license to be a software engineer, or doing unpaid apprenticeships sucking up to union members for acceptance. No thanks.

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Have rules and regulations in the bylaws as to salary and that you don't want leadership elite caste that inevitably takes power and lives in luxury while salaries get depressed across the board in the name of equality.

Disagree. Having seen the wide disparity in skill sets as an interviewer for hundreds of software "engineering" position applicants, I believe that a PE certification along the lines of what mechanical and electrical engineers have to get might be worth instituting in the US.

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