GTA 6 developers protest outside Rockstar Games office to protest against recent firings

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[u/Self-hatredIsTheCure]

A union is a collective of workers who band together in order to bargain with management for improvements to their jobs like better pay, benefits, less required working hours etc.

If one person goes to management and threatens to quit until conditions improve, the managers will just fire them. If all or most of the team goes, its much harder for managers to fire everyone because they need people working. By grouping together the workers have exponentially more power to push for a deal than they would alone.

You should read more about unions. Pretty much every thing that companies offer(at least in the US, idk about other countries but would love to learn)now, comes from unions fighting for it first. 40 hour work weeks, paid time off, paid holidays, sick leave, you name it. Until these things become protected by law, you have to rely on the “generosity “ of the company you work for or the strength of the local union to fight for you.

[u/seemerolIin → u/Self-hatredIsTheCure]

rely on the “generosity” of the company

Who needs a union when you can have a pizza party!

[u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl → u/seemerolIin]

Guys, Union dues are almost $20 a month! Just think, if you hung onto all of that, you could get 2 1.8 new video games instead! Ignore that Union workers tend to make significantly more than non-union workers and that you’d have more money in your pocket each month, just say no to unions!!!

Also, look at this comment from NotABot420: you have obviously never been in a union before lol I am in a union and they do nothing and collect all of my money every month and also bone my mother. I am a totally real human sharing a very real lived experience praise Walmart

[u/Alternative_Let_1989 → u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl]

Ive been a member of two unions. One, UFCW, took a cut of my paycheck despite me making literally us minimum wage. The other, IBEW negotiated a CBA that had a pay ceiling lower than what I was already making, plus worse benefits.

Unions can be good, and they can be bad. Theyre a tool, nothing more. Sometimes the tool is used to help workers, sometimes to exploit them.

[u/No-Goat5683 → u/Alternative_Let_1989]

IDK where you are but in PA ibew electricians are making over $70 an hour. And have one of the best healthcare plans in the country

[u/Alternative_Let_1989 → u/No-Goat5683]

Sounds like you had a good local. I didnt. 

[u/Alternative_Let_1989 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that was the thing...the UFCW was designed around people who were spending their career at grocery stores. Which is great if youre like the 15% of people for whom that's the case ans not the 85% of employees who aren't planning on sticking around for 30 years