SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies::SAG-AFTRA on Friday called for a strike authorization vote as it prepares to negotiate a new video game contract.
For the few pushing back on this, clearly you have no idea how important the power of collective bargaining is. We need class solidarity now more than ever. STRIKE!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cool. I hope it gets other areas of the game industry to unionize. They deserve it.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Visual Effects checking in.
Although I hope it doesn’t go the way the rest of the entertainment industry has, where the company colludes with the union leadership and negotiates essentially a freelance gig style of work, where you are just a day-hire and can be dropped off the schedule at a moment’s notice, and have no healthcare coverage or retirement.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No one deserves a union. Unions aren’t a good thing.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you like weekends? Thank unions. Do you like sick pay? Thank unions. Do you like overtime pay? Thank unions.
Unions make your job better even if you’re not in one by fighting for your rights as much as theirs. They want your pay to be as good as their pay.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know that’s what the work training video tells you, but that is what the businesses want you to think.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Reading this comment as I enjoy the Labour Day holiday in my country is really funny.
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You mean corporate shilling. Corporate shilling isn’t a good thing.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rule of the internet: If you want to know the true answer to a question, confidently post the wrong answer and inevitably someone who knows will reply to correct you.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not entirely wrong. If there is a union, it exists because something bad has happened. People don’t just sit around and go “you know we should organize to protect ourselves from companies”. Companies thoroughly fvck people over then they organize to protect themselves.
Unions are the lesser of two evils between unionization and getting fvcked by companies.
You shouldn’t have to pay a mediating company to exist to make sure you get fair wages vacation and work, but it certainly didn’t come out of nowhere.