Comment on Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized

aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s not pretend like Blizz or Bethesda will see the end of this decade anyway. Their fate was sealed when they got bought. Still, unionizing was the best thing employees could hope for. Good for them!

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blizzard turned to shit long before MS acquired them.

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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s not pretend like Blizz or Bethesda will see the end of this decade anyway.

    So if you’re management, you face a choice: try to dump everyone now in a reorganization on a moment’s notice, while it’s still Biden’s NLRB, or negotiate a CBA that probably bakes in substantial severance and job protections that will be expensive when they do try to reorganize for business reasons?

    If it’s true that the workers were likely to get dumped within the decade, then negotiating protections now actually protects them, or forces management to pay a high cost.

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