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The thing is, nobody who isn't brilliant at it should think of it as a career. If you are not stunningly productive, then it does not make sense to invest in yo

The thing is, nobody who isn't brilliant at it should think of it as a career. If you are not stunningly productive, then it does not make sense to invest in you when they could turn to the swaths of people who come to work because they love making games (regardless of how good the financials are). I don't see what the union would accomplish aside from employing union leaders and sinking companies which allow it to form. The market is competitive enough that if a major studio has any considerable union power, the firm will most likely just lose to more efficient companies, due to cost. I was fired once (according to people who heard from him about it, so grain of salt I guess) because the CEO thought I was attempting to organize the workforce at his (horribly dysfunctional) company, but I can't really see how organizing those people under that particular company would have done any good.

jachee 8y ago
> The market is competitive enough that if a major studio has any considerable union power, the firm will most likely just lose to more efficient companies, due to cost. It's not a zero-sum game. A company with happier, more productive employees under a union may have higher costs, but their odds of putting out a more-successful product are also higher than a company that burns out and/or screws over its devs.
- microcolonel 8y ago
  > A company with happier, more productive... Union workers, including professionals, across the U.S. report considerably lower trust and comfort in the workplace, and feel more distant/guarded from their bosses than non-union workers in every sector [0]; and I'm not exactly sure how you measure productivity, but I can't exactly assume that that's higher in a union shop either (anecdotally, it is the exact opposite of the case). Now, some of this might just be a matter of unions being more common in crappier industries, which is plausible, but it certainly doesn't indicate a positive impact of union membership. [0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/146687/Union-Workers-Score-Lower-Work-Environment-Index.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/146687/Union-Workers-Score-Lowe...

jachee 8y ago

> The market is competitive enough that if a major studio has any considerable union power, the firm will most likely just lose to more efficient companies, due to cost. It's not a zero-sum game. A company with happier, more productive employees under a union may have higher costs, but their odds of putting out a more-successful product are also higher than a company that burns out and/or screws over its devs.

microcolonel 8y ago
> A company with happier, more productive... Union workers, including professionals, across the U.S. report considerably lower trust and comfort in the workplace, and feel more distant/guarded from their bosses than non-union workers in every sector [0]; and I'm not exactly sure how you measure productivity, but I can't exactly assume that that's higher in a union shop either (anecdotally, it is the exact opposite of the case). Now, some of this might just be a matter of unions being more common in crappier industries, which is plausible, but it certainly doesn't indicate a positive impact of union membership. [0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/146687/Union-Workers-Score-Lower-Work-Environment-Index.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/146687/Union-Workers-Score-Lowe...