Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US
Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US
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Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US
cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/41940
AEGIS-CWA will represent workers across departments including brand marketing, games as service, localization, marketing services, product development operations, product development, sales, quality assurance teams, more, becoming the largest multi-discipline video game union in the United States.
This is great news but I'm always bummed that unions are on a per company basis. Until we have an industry wide union they'll never have the power that the WGA or SAG have.
Here's hoping with this wave of unionising we can turn around and unionised the unions in 10 - 15 years.
You have to start somewhere. Most people are too scared of corporate retaliation, so it's a situation where no-one wants to jump first and be left out in the cold if everyone else chickens out.
In that sort of scenario, it takes one group deciding to take the risk that can help tip the next domino.
Thank fuck for that. Until unions stop recieving massive government protection, all industry-wide unions do is make everything worse.
I agree in principle, but video game companies are notorious for mistreating their workforce. I don't like government backed unions either, but I do think we should do something to address problems the industry has.
I think unions are a fantastic solution to certain classes of problems, but I think they're far from a silver bullet, and that they create new problems as well. Ideally we can solve these problems without resorting to creating more bureaucracy.