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Raven Software QA Group Votes To Unionize, Becomes First Major US Games Union
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Staffers at Activision Blizzard studio Raven Software voted today to be recognized as a union, with the vote successfully carrying the day. As such, this marks the first major US games union to be formed at a major studio.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Pretty basic workers right - to act collectively to further their self interest - that is too often kneejerk ridiculed by those who believe that workers should be thankful to have jobs, keep quiet and take whatever table scraps the masters want to give them, and the brainwashed corporate fanbois who cheer on those corpofascists,
I could go on...
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Whether the Union will actually be created is a completely different thing, which it probably won't be.
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But Unions could also get to much power and abuse them.
Example: I am from Norway. Yes we are spoiled rich kids because of oil. Yes we get free health care and schools. Heck I even get free dental care because I am disabled. And I live quite comfortably on my disabilty (econ). And no we are not communists
I worked within healthcare for 15 years before I got sick. But the thing is the union which protect goverment workers has way to much power. Up to a point that it became almost impossible to fire someone who does not do his/her job properly. So if you suck at your job you will still keep it because of the union. Best thing I could hope for as a colleague was to get them transferred to another goverment job. But then they just become some one else problem.
In the private sector though luckily Unions work "normally"
Have not yet though. Maybe there is hope?
Nah there is really none for me or the human race.
Yes I'm aware of the Scandinavian democracies and where I live in Canada, we're not too far behind you with our social safety nets. We're the fortunate ones. Most of the world isn't.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Tools are not, by their nature, good or bad. They're simply catalysts for a specific sort of change goal. Need a nail in wood? The hammer is your catalyst. Need some collective leverage to counter an oppressive corporate workplace? The union is your catalyst.
The hammer can be abused- hell, it has been used to kill more times than can be counted. In a morbid way, it is still a catalyst for a perverted goal even then. But no one thinks the hammer is bad or evil because of it. Unions are much the same. The way they're used by their members is what makes them good or bad.
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Like Iselin (who is beginning to sound more and more like Johnny Silverhand
) I live in Canada (although on the opposite coast)
with vast social programs / safety nets to assist most folks hopefully in their
darkest times. I was fortunate enough in my field for my employment to not be
affected from the recent pandemic but know people who had to rely on these
programs to survive in a 2year lockdown and we were glad they existed for them.
Just a little curious about the article calling it the first major US games union. Does that mean that all several hundred Raven employees automatically must join the union if it is formed? Or does major refer to 20ish people in the QA department that voted to form it?
If its only the QA folks a union of 20ish doesn't seem to have much clout unlike say the International brotherhood of electricians who have 70,000 members in Canada alone. Are they a subsidiary of a more powerful union?
Also going by that picture with some of the employees where they won, all are raising their fists in solidarity together with one deciding to keep his hands in his pockets. I know who i would assume was a corporate sellout and voted against it. Once formed kicking him out should be on the agenda
/THIS IS A JOKE
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They even have a name for it 'gréviculture' which means strike culture. Our good friends the French.
That's political and I admire the French, well not the strike culture but certainly the culture. So no more such posts here.
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https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/software-developer-shortage-us