Should there be a Project Manager's Union?

Which project manager interests need protecting? Unions were originally created to protect workers from physically hazardous working conditions that could lead to maiming or death, ridiculously long working hours, criminally low pay, and so forth. The worst I have to endure is the occasional annoying stakeholder.
Perhaps a project manager union would be beneficial in some areas of the world, but do project managers in more developed nations really need one? That said, there may be some legitimate project management interests that need protection that I simply never noticed.

Sante, I hear you. We have a professional organization at work, and I know some of the benefits like resource sharing, training etc. May be there is some potential to have an association for project managers. Anyway I will go with the group.

Sante, I hear you. We have a professional organization at work, and I know some of the benefits like resource sharing, training etc. May be there is some potential to have an association for project managers. Anyway I will go with the group.

Here's a more clear example Eric. Professional bodies (when they state audits are "random") should have to justify why some they audit someone 3 times and others zero times. Perhaps a lobby group / union with say half a million members could influence said body to come up with a system such as distributing audits to other members at least once before auditing someone else a second time. Anther example might be PDU's such as raising the PDU's for professional experience and lowering the PDU's to decimal places (just like they do for some webinars) for say reading a book or chatting in a forum; these perhaps should be 0.1 PDU for 1 hour of reading, not 1 PDU for 1 hour. Random individuals requesting this would likely get no response or change, however a large membership such as a union or lobby group would be a lot more successful.

I appreciate the example, Sante. I didn't realize audits were unfairly given. I wonder how many other similar practices are occurring?
Would you mind posing this question as a poll? I'd be curious to see what members on this site think.

Sante,

I would prefer a term like Association to Union.

That would go at protecting interest of PM from various background like PMI and Prince2 (Axelos) . Sound interesting.

Sante -

Association membership & credentials are a choice not a requirement. Until PMI takes over the world (of PM), there are many alternatives if someone finds their offerings or approaches lacking.

I would shy away from any type of "union" reference - they were first introduced to protect workers from unfair treatment by the companies they worked for. As soon as there is a reasonable opt-out option, a union wouldn't add much value and might introduce its own set of challenges.

PMs have the ability to vote with their wallets - if enough folks complain, any association will be forced to change their tune...

Kiron