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I cannot believe that the acquisition cheerleaders thought that a mega acquisition by one of the most valuable capitalist entities in the world would result in a socialist paradise for workers.
Unionised staff at COD studio Raven Software says Activision is stalling over contract talks | VGC
Unionized staff at Call of Duty studio Raven Software filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after claims that Activision and Microsoft are stalling over contract negotiations.
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I'm not sure that is a bonus rather a huge headache.
And the whole idea for a union and collective bargaining is the state recognising that the well being of citizens takes precedence over unrestricted pursue of profit.
This can happen with most jobs done on a pc. Maybe even yours.
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Headache for managers, bonus for developers.
No human rights either.
True.
But the crux of the matter is how much training time is required and what are the consequences (particularly legal ones) for underperformance/incompetence/malpractice?
Most QA is repetitive drudgework, that most likely will get replaced by AI in a few years time anyway. Compare that to say someone doing similar stuff doing but in a field like financial/administrative casework, where there are multiple lines of checking and real consequences for fuckups... hence they are kept regional/national for safeguarding reasons.
The key part in any sort of bargaining process is leverage; typically expressed through threats/action to withdraw labour collectively.
When that "threat" carries limited weight, bargaining power is diminished.
Yeah man but them ponies tears was worth it.
I can't believe you don't realise it was far worse under Bobby.
Not only that but they made some amazing games with licensed IPs such as Star Wars,X-men and Marvel.
Most of them never believed that and were bullshitting.
Less and less human rights in some parts of western world too...
Microsoft is one of the better companies in the world to work for. Yes they are a mega Corp, yes the evil empire is still there always lurking in the background but as a mega Corp they are a good place for the average worker to have a career at.
Yeah, I ran a program a few years back with a team in Bangalore. They were not bad group of engineers but the time difference just killed a lot of benefits due to going back and forth.
MS is ok place if you are at Redmond or another dev hub. Unless of course you are one of over 20K people who got laid off over last year.
I'll never understand people arguing against unionization wearing it as a badge of honor when it is indeed a badge of stupidity. The only people who should ever argue against unions is business owners. If you're an employee and you argue against unions, you're arguing against your best interests.
You seem to not understand that this is not my position but a possible (but probably almost sure) strategy that Publishers will adopt. It already happened in mechanical, animation and many other business branches - Rising costs and welfare shift work where it costs less. Whether this is right or not
Yeah this isn't exactly a surprise, unions battling with companies over deals is the norm.
What? Unions have positives and negatives but the free market is completely imbalanced when it comes to employer/employee relations, hence why, even without unions, we have lots of regulations to rein in employers.
And that's a bad thing. Regulations hurt profits and growth. If i own a company and have to pay old hands 120K a year plus pensions, healthcare, vacations, just because they've worked there for over 20 years and it's in the contract, well then I can't hire other new employees or sell my products at competitive prices. Regulations are just a way to extort business through fines and fees and quid pro quo graft.
I would like to respond but politics are banned on here. So I'll just recommend that you look into philosophers Leonard Peikoff and Yaron Brook
Microsoft is not a monopoly in gaming.
Phil McCracken and Matt Fruity in the Booty are laughing from on high.
You're allowed to discuss the idea of unions in a thread about unions. I'm not sure what Leonard Peikoff has got to do with this though. His idea of obectivisim would mean that the group of people who form a union to get more from the corporation are just doing what's best for them. Your idea is that they drive up prices but so does a monopolistic company who has control over the workforce and consumers too. Unless you're saying a corporate monopoly doing what's best for the company is good but a union doing what's best for their workforce is not.
