2y ago

SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies

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.

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2y ago

variety.com /2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-seeks-video-game-strike-approval-1235711251/

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Cool. I hope it gets other areas of the game industry to unionize. They deserve it.
- Here here! Let the money I spend go to the people who actually made the fucking product!!
- 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.
- No one deserves a union. Unions aren't a good thing.
  
  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.
  
  I know that's what the work training video tells you, but that is what the businesses want you to think.
  
  Reading this comment as I enjoy the Labour Day holiday in my country is really funny.
  
  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.
  
  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.
Now things are getting interesting
- Nerds suddenly start to care about labor relations!
  
  they have stopped praising Elon Musk, one starship explosion too many
For the few pushing back on this, clearly you have no idea how important the power of collective bargaining is. We need class solidarity now more than ever. STRIKE!
- but internet rich guys said it was bad
- I want to see the VFX artists and game programmers each unionize during this time. There isn't a better bargaining time than now.
For those like me who have only heard it called SAG, SAG-AFTRA is Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Since I guess the article assumes everyone knows that already.
Yeah, get them! Take the corporations for everything they're worth!
Good. Show those corporate goons who actually makes them money and that they need you and you don't need them.
Anyone know what they mean when they ask for protection from AI? Voice synth is going to be very big for video games seeing the massive amount of NPCs certain games have. I don't think Microsoft is the kind to play ball and limit what they can do with AI
- I think it’s making sure that they can’t record their voice in a single session and have it synthesised forevermore.
  
  No that's just what would be reasonable, they're demanding much heavier restrictions on use of emerging technologies.
Nice.
6 months from now everyone will be crying out over how the cost of streaming services are going up
- but we have been complaining about exactly that, even before this whole thing started, yet the "paying people will make everything more expensive" crowd tends to be really quiet when these companies are bragging about record profits fiscal quarter after fiscal quarter as everything is getting more expensive at a record pace!
How is it related to technology ?

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