You're thinking of self-regulating professional body rather than a trade union. Unions fight for pay and working conditions against employers, professional bodies represent the considered opinion of the profession and self-regulate their members, like doctors and barristers.
Nurses unions have advocated in the US for policies like Medicare-for-all (single payer health care), so it’s not just possible but plausible. It would help them too (simplifying insurance makes nurses lives easier), but that’s equally true for many consumer protection bills in the tech space.
> Nurses unions have advocated in the US for policies like Medicare-for-all
The same way a mechanics' union would advocate for a car subsidy. I'm not saying it's disingenuous. Just that there is a commercial need served; I haven't seen a private sector union advocate for something meaningful that's revenue neutral.
Big unions like the CWA do a lot more than that, but I don't really care what it is, although I think a lot of people in tech have a knee-jerk anti-union response so maybe that's not the way to go.
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