Re:Video game union workers rally against $55B private acqui...
by echelon on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:47PM
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I don't know where to attach this comment.
This isn't about PE juicing the company and doing layoffs.
This is about transplanting and nurturing a lucrative industry into a former Petro state.
This is sowing the seeds of a prosperous, post-oil world. It's an investment in the future as the world is changing.
This will look more like Lenovo and Thinkpad North Carolina than a PE shake down and gutting.
The jobs will not evaporate, but they will absolutely start cross-training engineers in the Middle East and building up new talent there.
Re:Video game union workers rally against $55B private acqui...
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:04PM
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> jobs will not evaporate, but they will absolutely start cross-training engineers in the Middle East and building up new talent there
If this is what the union fears, this is the moment to negotiate safeguards.
This is a negotiation. You’re seeing one side message.
The union didn’t have a say in whether EA got acquired. But it does have the ability to make it a mess. Part of that ability is in public messaging.
So you’d expect to see , if the union is savvy, public grandstanding and threats paired with private negotiations for better terms for union members, whether that be immunity from lay-offs or some other wins.