Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by ticmasta on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:41PM (#21985224)

>> Why should they get 40% margins? Form a union, demand more money.

Why should they pay you more? Form the next FB and pay your employees 3x what they currently pay.

Pretty ridiculous response, right?

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by unapologetic on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:23PM (#21985759)

Because if they don't then the union has the capability to severely harm the company.

This is why we need unions.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by uncle_j on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:32AM (#21990801)

Which is basically blackmail. Unions tend to make things worse in the long run.

If you don't like the company find a job that gives you a better deal.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by thu2111 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:36AM (#21989879)

I think you radically underestimate how over staffed these firms are. The only sorry of strike that could harm Facebook is if the SREs actually shut down all the servers. But you can get DevOps people anywhere and management there is technical do could easily run the firm themselves for a while. All the strikers would do is get themselves fired

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