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So that we could screw over our industry as badly as these longshoremen are screwing over theirs? Sorry, I didn't go into QA to be part of the problem. Lack of unionization is one of the things that drew me to the industry, and I'll never join a union. The longshoremen are overpaid. Making ourselves overpaid wouldn't have helped the situation. The H1Bs play little if any part of the problem. Crappy business plans that couldn't possibly work but got funded anyway were the problem. And businesses that didn't even HAVE business plans, and yet IPOd for $25/share. Pie in the sky thinking results in egg on your face. Pushing blame to the H1Bs is excuse mongering and just sets up the industry to make the same stupid mistakes next time around.

Forget the H1-B program, disgrace that it is, and reflect on the power collective bargaining would give to software developers. Why do you think the NFL, NBA and professional baseball players all belong to unions?