Based. We need all the union influence we can get in tech, particularly game dev. Make the MBAs in suits sweat a bit.
Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized
Submitted 1 month ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/blizzards-world-of-warcraft-team-has-unionized/
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EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 1 month 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.
Mautobu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s incredible. Excellent work!
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of tankies.
aluminium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Microsoft overlords really letting themselfes go these days.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month 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!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
Blizzard turned to shit long before MS acquired them.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
GG ppl. Kudos.
b34k@lemmy.world 1 month ago
WOW!
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes, that is what they work on.
JoShmoe@ani.social 1 month ago
Thanks Qwaffle, that was the joke.