Yep, I'm sure trying to destroy the video game industry will make him really popular with the kids.
Please.
What the video game industry really needs is protection from SJWs, who keep on forcing video game companies to censor their games or risk being "deplatformed" and blocked from retailers. Unions are the last the thing the industry needs.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:58AM (#58786340)
I don't know why many Americans seem to be against unions.
Here in Denmark unions fairly works well: almost all blue color workers are unionized, giving high minimum wages and good working conditions. We have no minimum wage by law, the unions ensure that.
And Danish companies do compete well enough internationally.
For engineers we have unions, but they have no power: you can't get engineers into collective strikes and in the end that is the only power unions have. The blue color unions very rarely use that weapon but the only treat is there to get a better deal.
Case in point: Hostess went belly up because they were not in a position to give in to the demands of the Baker's union and were told as much. The result? The Baker's union went on strike anyway and Hostess went bankrupt, a lot of people lost their jobs and so began the great twinkie hoarding.
Case in point: Hostess went belly up because they were not in a position to give in to the demands of the Baker's union and were told as much. The result? The Baker's union went on strike anyway and Hostess went bankrupt, a lot of people lost their jobs and so began the great twinkie hoarding.
Hostess went belly up because they couldn't manage themselves and after the workers and unions had already agreed to several pay and other cuts, the executives were still giving themselves bonuses.
and they've spent decades pushing a narrative that if you rely on Unions you're weak. We prize individuality so they preyed on that. They also ran stories about corrupt Union bosses (which does happen).
Our establishment media has a slight left wing bias on some social issues (guns, abortion, gay rights) and a hard right wing bias on economic issues, but the establishment media has spun that into a "Left Wing Media Bias". That makes people distrustful when any media pushes for pro-worker issues since pro
Because in the US they have a history of being corrupt and in some older cases, run by organized crime. In some cases, they've done good work, but in many they've been no value added, and so skilled workers feel that they can negotiate better wages instead of being stuck with what is typically a seniority based system set up by the unions. It's also nearly impossible to get rid of a shitty union worker (nearly as hard as it is to get rid of a government employee). That should never be the case.
So now he wants to destroy the video game industry (Score:0, Flamebait)
Yep, I'm sure trying to destroy the video game industry will make him really popular with the kids.
Please.
What the video game industry really needs is protection from SJWs, who keep on forcing video game companies to censor their games or risk being "deplatformed" and blocked from retailers. Unions are the last the thing the industry needs.
Re: So now he wants to destroy the video game indu (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't know why many Americans seem to be against unions.
Here in Denmark unions fairly works well: almost all blue color workers are unionized, giving high minimum wages and good working conditions. We have no minimum wage by law, the unions ensure that.
And Danish companies do compete well enough internationally.
For engineers we have unions, but they have no power: you can't get engineers into collective strikes and in the end that is the only power unions have. The blue color unions very rarely use that weapon but the only treat is there to get a better deal.
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Re: So now he wants to destroy the video game indu (Score:4, Informative)
Case in point: Hostess went belly up because they were not in a position to give in to the demands of the Baker's union and were told as much. The result? The Baker's union went on strike anyway and Hostess went bankrupt, a lot of people lost their jobs and so began the great twinkie hoarding.
Hostess went belly up because they couldn't manage themselves and after the workers and unions had already agreed to several pay and other cuts, the executives were still giving themselves bonuses.
Our media is owned by billionaires (Score:2)
Our establishment media has a slight left wing bias on some social issues (guns, abortion, gay rights) and a hard right wing bias on economic issues, but the establishment media has spun that into a "Left Wing Media Bias". That makes people distrustful when any media pushes for pro-worker issues since pro
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Because in the US they have a history of being corrupt and in some older cases, run by organized crime. In some cases, they've done good work, but in many they've been no value added, and so skilled workers feel that they can negotiate better wages instead of being stuck with what is typically a seniority based system set up by the unions. It's also nearly impossible to get rid of a shitty union worker (nearly as hard as it is to get rid of a government employee). That should never be the case.
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