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Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe they try are trying to avoid some additional scrutiny by letting the union exist?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's more likely a cost benefit analysis. Fighting the Unions is lawyer expensive and PR expensive. Gamers are noisy after all, when riled up. Microsoft is evil, but also like Trump, they understand optics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh this could definitely be it, let the union exist, get the good press, and then fuck them hard in contract negotiations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think it might be more subtle than that, unions exist so that when negotiations happen they can fuck back, but we know Microsoft can strategise longer term than that. They pioneered "embrace, extend, extinguish". Embracing a union then trying to infiltrate and turn it into a corporatised union is another version of that exact same play.