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 11 months ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/blizzards-world-of-warcraft-team-has-unionized/
Comments
EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 11 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.
Mautobu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s incredible. Excellent work!
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of tankies.
aluminium@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Microsoft overlords really letting themselfes go these days.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 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!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 months ago
Blizzard turned to shit long before MS acquired them.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 11 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.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
GG ppl. Kudos.
b34k@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WOW!
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes, that is what they work on.
JoShmoe@ani.social 11 months ago
Thanks Qwaffle, that was the joke.