or IT Professional Association like Accountants have?
I doubt that many would go for a union, from the track record of the many prior discussions on the subject.
But a Professional Association, Global in scope, that Certifies memebers, based on REAL skills, not on paper trail.
Something like the Trades apprenticeship [ plumber, elecrtician, masons [ concrete and stone work ] ] but not a Union.
Maybe calling it a Guild would also be an option.
[ though Hollywood’s MPAA and the SAG etc have given even that term a bad odor ]
Something that works at promoting standards for IT Professionals, that promotes workig with standards complant software and that promotes meeting the legal requirements for data storage and protection.
Not an organisation involved in setting the standards for the industry, only in setting the standards for the skills of those working in it.
edited just because