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and what were your total union dues during this period ? Because if the union failed to get you a COLA increase then the dues would have put you in the red.
by dangerboysteve 7y ago
and what were your total union dues during this period ? Because if the union failed to get you a COLA increase then the dues would have put you in the red.
- slipheen 7y agoI worked in the video game industry for several years. Being "in the red" over dues wouldn't be on by top-100 list of things to care about. The regularly use worker hostile behavior - Two famous examples are eternal crunch times and laying off entire teams after shipping a game, even after luring them from other companies with promises they wouldn't. Eventually, I left that industry entirely, which was unfortunate. I loved what I was making, but I hated what they could get away with doing to the workers. It reminded me of Hollywood - So many young actors wanted the job, they knew they could mistreat them, and regularly did. A union would be excellent here. Don't get caught up on the money part.
- dangerboysteve 7y agoI am not making the argument against unions, perhaps the example provided above. Not all unions are created equal. Unions can be a good thing to enact change and are proven to work in creative fields as Hollywood could attest. That being said, Hollywood seems to take dump on many post production services and VFX which traditionally don't have unions. The nature of the work also allows for the work to be farmed out to companies all over the world.