Results from the October 2003 Software Development survey (of engineers and development managers working on U.S.-based projects that were partly or completely outsourced offshore) indicate weaknesses in the outsourcing trend. Although advocates of outsourcing have promised that the 500,000 IT jobs that have been lost to date, as well as the million more expected to evaporate in the next five years, will 'be replaced by new ones farther up the food chain,' optimistic predictions for greatly increased software productivity have not panned out. The result could be broad-based unionization of white-collar workers, including programmers. U.S. unions are interested in the opportunity. The TechsUnite project (from the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, which is collaborating with such supporters as the Alliance@IBM, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, CWA National Education and Training Trust, and the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers) has a Web site that provides the Flash game 'The Tech Worker Challenge.' Topics covered include today competitive environment and efforts bolster IT as an industry; the extent of outsourcing; where offshore teams are located; which activities are outsourced and which are done internally (94 percent outsourcing for coding); readers' involvement with offshore teams; length of business involvement in outsourcing; types of applications involved; languages and technologies used; importance of recent outsourced projects; quality issues; job titles; and industry demographics.