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I for one am very interested to see the quality differences between worker owned game studios and corporate studios. But last I heard they had only just started unionizing.
And a programmer friend I talked to couldn’t comprehend why he would want to be in a union.
unions are a harder sell in an industry like tech where it's common to have a diverse skill set spanning work that could arguable each be it's own union. does a full stack dev have to join the database admin union before they can write sql queries?
those diverse skill sets also make the individual value of workers fluctuate a lot more as well.
I still like the idea of unions but I just don't know how you can make them work for tech;if anyone has any good resources on the subject I'd love to read more about it
I also had a programmer friend that was anti-union. He was like "If the place I'm working at sucks, I'll just find another place." Very short sighted and optimistic.
Who is/are “they”?
Tech workers in general have been finally making baby steps with unions trying to form at goog and maybe a couple others. I think kickstarter got a union a couple years ago as well... There are some other examples too which is a big change from just a few years ago
Word I just wasn’t clear if you were talking about a specific studio or blizzard or something.
World of warcrafts team and Bethesda recently unionized.