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A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.
(www.computerworld.com)
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This is a really frustrating part about being a developer. A lot of people think they're good at negotiating because they get high salaries. But they would probably have gotten better salaries and more even salaries if we had a union. I have seen pretty extreme examples of, at least in Norwegian terms, of 30 to 50 percent higher salaries for pretty much the same job and even where the person with the lower salary was more competent and able to work faster and accomplish more.