so yea, they should unionize.
AAA dev here; it’s not that. It’s that attempting to standardize development in a highly fluid and innovative sector kills your competitiveness ad a studio. That being said, unionization is desperately needed. Blizzard recently unionized across their while studio, which is probably the best model out there right now; allow companies of a certain scale to unionize so that positive and competitive aspects of company culture/organizational structure can be maintained/improved while ensuring worker’s rights against exploitation from the top-down and abused of shareholders/management. Games, and by extension their studios, are intended to be things greater than the sum of their parts, and this is reflected by each company’s unique internal culture. How many big studios have you seen shed a sizeable amount of senior devs, after which they no longer seem to be able to make the same quality games as before? Happens all the time, and this is why. That’s the magic of gamedev studio culture and the people that create it, and that needs to be protected while also upholding workers’ rights simultaneously. The best way to do that is to allow all members of said culture to create their own rules of union governance from within, not to have standards that maybe disrupt said culture from without.
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cybersin@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
There are actually quite a few “Hollywood” unions, but unionization rates have fallen dramatically over the past few decades.
- SAG-AFTRA
- IATSE
- Writers Guild of America
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Art Directors Guild
- Costume Designers Guild
- Director’s Guild of America
- Location Managers Guild International
- Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild
- Motion Picture Editors Guild
- Motion Picture Sound Editors
- Producer’s Guild of America
- Production Sound and Video Engineers Guild
- Set Decorators Society of America
- Society of Camera Operators
- Stuntmen’s Association & United Stuntwomen’s Association
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Sorry for not engaging with the content, but please add paragraph breaks. kthx