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.

  • Flying Squid
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    991 year ago

    Cool. I hope it gets other areas of the game industry to unionize. They deserve it.

    • z3rOR0ne
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      351 year ago

      Here here! Let the money I spend go to the people who actually made the fucking product!!

    • Guy Dudeman
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      211 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
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      -1261 year ago

      No one deserves a union. Unions aren’t a good thing.

      • Flying Squid
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        641 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Our union calendars love mentioning that shit, but it’s like me bragging about a second grade vocabulary test. Our union leadership recommended we accept a contract that 80% of the members voted against. I’m not going to get into pension and 401k fuckery, but we can’t just dogmatically say unions are great and cite 100 year old wins. Unions need to work for their dues.

        • madthumbs
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          -301 year ago

          Do you like dead beat workers bringing down your earning potential? - Thank unions! DO you like having your employer not able to provide suitable work for you when injured? -Thank unions! Do you like someone forcing you to fork over a portion of your taxable income? - Thank unions! Do you like people abusing ‘sick time’? - Thank unions!

          • @[email protected]
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            171 year ago

            It’s kind of funny how you are wrong in every way.

            • Union workers earn 20% more.
            • You shouldn’t work while injured. Worker’s comp is a thing.
            • You pay a dime to get a dollar.
            • It’s not abuse to take sick time, but you already stated people should work injured.

            Thank unions.

            • madthumbs
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              -221 year ago

              Union workers can and do make minimum wage even with plenty of experience and years on the job. Unions take dues on that minimum wage, so they take home even less. Unions target higher paying jobs for your propaganda statistic. People lose union jobs because they aren’t permitted to work jobs they can perform. Good workers don’t want to sit out temporarily ‘collecting’ like the lazy people that like unions.

              • @[email protected]
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                31 year ago

                I heard unions are not a thing in China and Russia. I recommend you migrate to either for two years, then come back and tell us if you want unions or not.

                • madthumbs
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                  -111 year ago

                  There are no unions in self employment. I recommend you stop leeching off others and try working for your self.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    Then that just makes you either a poor negotiator/salesman/talent or the market you are trying to get into is saturated.

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                You a troll/bot? If not you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about and at this point you’re just spreading bullshit.

          • arthurpizza
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            151 year ago

            A lot of “Temporary Embarrassed Billionaire” vibes.

            • madthumbs
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              -221 year ago

              A lot of predatory union propaganda. Be sure to call your union to down-vote, because that’s the kind of stupid collective shit unions do.

              • @orrk
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                31 year ago

                and guess what? it works.

          • Flying Squid
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            131 year ago

            Yes, blame your co-workers for everything. It must be their faults. They’re all “deadbeats” and “abusers.”

            Also, your job is supposed to provide for you when you’re injured.

            • madthumbs
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              -81 year ago

              No, that’s called mooching. Freeloader.

              • Flying Squid
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                21 year ago

                It’s mooching to get compensated for injuries while at work? Really?

            • madthumbs
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              -131 year ago

              And they would have if the Union didn’t interfere with their job codes bullshit.

              • Flying Squid
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                81 year ago

                Sure they would have. And worked 10 hour days 7 days a week with no overtime or safety protections or health insurance.

                • @orrk
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                  31 year ago

                  10 hours? before Unions, it was 16 hours! and people would sleep on literal ropes! look up the origin of hangover

      • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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        251 year ago

        I know that’s what the work training video tells you, but that is what the businesses want you to think.

        • madthumbs
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          -141 year ago

          I’m 52 years old. I learned from experience having been in multiple unions. Keep going with assumptions and propaganda. -Don’t forget to ‘collectively’ down-vote what you can’t reason against.

        • madthumbs
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          -281 year ago

          Not being pro-union doesn’t mean pro corporate. dumb dumb

      • Guy Dudeman
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        61 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
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        11 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.