Korean game unions demand abolition of comprehensive wage system to improve conditions

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• irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  However, it has been noted that the demand from labor unions in the gaming industry, where the average annual salary exceeds 100 million won, sounds like the grumbling of a “noble union.”

  Yeah, but people are literally dying from being forced to work so much overtime. Just because the people are being paid middle class income instead of poverty wages, doesn’t mean they are any less entitled to fair treatment. Unfortunately, it’s really common in the US as well to pay a “salary” that although the contract might say you have to work 35-40 hours per week to get it, they often don’t have a maximum. So employers often require unlimited hours to keep your job. And especially in the tech industry with almost no unions, this practice kills quite a lot here as well. They just don’t allow the deaths to be directly linked to work here. Much like how the far right likes to say that COVID killed very few people because people don’t usually die from COVID directly, but from diseases that it exacerbates or directly triggers, same was said of AIDS for a time.

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