Many professionals have unions, often under different names. Medical Association, Bar Association, Actors guild, various engineering associations. Others such as professional sports do call them unions and since unionizing have done much better.
There are only a few professions where the workers don't have a stacked deck against them and where it is clear who are the best performers.

Some decades ago, the multinational I worked for was all excited to get us to work like the Japanese, who were so gungho that they gathered before work to sing the company song. We responded that we would gladly do that in return for guaranteed lifetime job security. (Crickets.)

Yup, that's it. You say that it happens "countless" times and on a "regular basis." You manage to cite three examples, some of which are decades old. Someone points out that you're blowing smoke on the subject, and now - in order to avoid having to admit that you're just ranting nonsense - off you run pretending you're offended. What are you, a twelve year old girl? That's the only demographic in which such shallow theatrics pass as a way to avoid telling the truth. Enjoy your next attempt to spout BS in hopes you'll get an uninformed, witless audience. That doesn't exist here.

The Soviet Union (things were really bad for the average person in Czarist Russia).
Cuba is another example. Compare to the capitalist Haiti or mafia run Cuba.
Of course both above examples would have done much better to allow a mix of capitalism at some point.

I'm not forgetting. Then again, that was also true for telnet back when I started setting up DNS zone transfers.... Just saying. :-)

1. read, then comment: ok

2. read, don't comment: ok

3. don't read, don't comment: ok

4. don't read, then comment: total shitbag

This doesn't seem like an intrinsically bad idea; things like the GHS hazard pictograms, DIN 4844-2, ISO 3864, TSCA marks, and similar such things seem like perfectly reasonable additions to Unicode(some of them are already there).

What seems like more of a problem is the idea that the Unicode Consortium is out there fishing for ideas. A project of that scope has more than enough backlog to work through; what possible benefit could there be in putzing around internally with ideas for stuff that hasn't been codified by any relevant user groups, standards bodies, experts, national standards, etc? If they think that they have free time for that, they probably aren't looking hard enough at the stew of natural languages and commonly used symbols out there.

The original round of unicode-ified emoji, while puerile and obnoxious, were at least a solid instance of one of the Consortium's functions: the symbols were in wide use; but saddled with a horrible mess of legacy encoding schemes and general awfulness, so the only thing to do was wade in, hand out code points, and hope that the legacy systems could be burned to the ground as soon as possible. Same reason why parts of Unicode have substantial amounts of duplication, single characters that should be represented as composites, and so on; because various legacy standards had to die.

Here, though, there is no obvious existing standard being modeled on, nor any interoperability issue being solved. If somebody wants Unicode to have a picture of absolutely everything; maybe they should go work on graphics format standards.

All the skills to produce these things are being outsourced to China

This is true of the internal battery. The external UPS battery should hold enough juice to suspend through the storm.

Did you know him?

At least.

Look son, we're a tolerant crowd around here, but you go spouting that Commie Pinko crap off in some placers, yer likely to get yer head sawed off by some good ol' boys.

Stick to the Bible, son. It's for the best.

Second, plan on having something you can offer to employers besides the threat of a revolution or strike; good workers can find good jobs.

Anything you can do can be taught to someone else willing to work for less.

Have you so soon forgotten Disney's attempt to replace their techs?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-20150617-story.html

Seems that the only thing that stopped that was the publicity it got once the techs started complaining.

You have no idea of scale.

And if DoD decided to do it inhouse, the libertards would be hanging from the lampposts crying the blues about big government.