Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by bluGill on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:52PM (#21984035)

The film unions are the perfect thing to bring up because they are the most like video games. Thus both the good and bad from those unions are likely to apply. Apply the rules for a coal miners to video game workers and the union will die quickly as workers realize the rules coal miners need are not helpful for their situation. Apply the rules for the actors union to video game workers and you have a chance of success.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by keiferski on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:33AM (#21989163)

I meant in reference to the argument that “so many people want to do the job, ergo companies have little incentive to treat employees well.” The point being: the film industry has a huge potential workforce yet still manages to have functional unions.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by bluGill on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:47AM (#21990888)

For some definition of functional. In hollywood actors commonly should really be called waiters with an acting hobby. The union is not able to get their members a living wage.

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