Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized

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• b34k@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WOW!

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  • Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, that is what they work on.

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    • JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks Qwaffle, that was the joke.

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• EurekaStockade@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based. We need all the union influence we can get in tech, particularly game dev. Make the MBAs in suits sweat a bit.

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• LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Amazing, I love seeing the ripple of Bethesda’s own ‘Wall-to-Wall’ union taking shape in other places in game development. Corpo scum needs to be forced to play nice, unions are so useful in the pursuit of that goal.

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• Mautobu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s incredible. Excellent work!

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• verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of tankies.

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• aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Microsoft overlords really letting themselfes go these days.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blizzard turned to shit long before MS acquired them.

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    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  GG ppl. Kudos.

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