> I see tech-workers as professionals not as laborers.
Professional labor is a subset of labor, and unions representing (exclusively or alongside other) labor exist. (Of course, tech workers don't have much professional organization outside of the labor union kind, either.)
> I think the great battle to be fought by tech workers is to stop having them treated as common laborers that perform some kind of rote process.
“rote process” or not has nothing to do with the reasons for or against having a union; it has a lot to do with what you'd want a union to negotiate for in terms of working conditions.
> Some times we call software development engineering
Only because management discovered that labels are good way to distract from substantive issues, because developers eat up the empty status markers.
Professional labor is a subset of labor, and unions representing (exclusively or alongside other) labor exist. (Of course, tech workers don't have much professional organization outside of the labor union kind, either.)
> I think the great battle to be fought by tech workers is to stop having them treated as common laborers that perform some kind of rote process.
“rote process” or not has nothing to do with the reasons for or against having a union; it has a lot to do with what you'd want a union to negotiate for in terms of working conditions.
> Some times we call software development engineering
Only because management discovered that labels are good way to distract from substantive issues, because developers eat up the empty status markers.