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https://www.europesays.com/africa/369156/ Labour Leaders Seek Fresh Minimum Wage Review in Nigeria #CostOfLiving #EconomicRealities #KebbiState #LabourLeaders #MinimumWage #Nigeria #NLC #TradeUnionism #WorkersRights #WorkersWelfare
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/367850/ NLC Demands New Minimum Wage: ₦70,000 No Longer Enough #CostOfLiving #Inflation #JoeAjaero #KebbiState #LabourUnion #MinimumWage #Nigeria #NigerianWorkers #NLC #TradeUnionism #WorkersRights
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Why the Lucas plan matters today
Ian Townson explores what relevance the proposals and ways of organising from fifty years ago have in today's age of increasing climate catastrophe and the struggle for an ecosocialist futurehttps://anticapitalistresistance.org/why-the-lucas-plan-matters-today/
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Why the Lucas plan matters today
Ian Townson explores what relevance the proposals and ways of organising from fifty years ago have in today's age of increasing climate catastrophe and the struggle for an ecosocialist futurehttps://anticapitalistresistance.org/why-the-lucas-plan-matters-today/
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IFJ Centenary World Congress kicks off in Paris
The 32nd World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will open on 4 May in Paris,…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #centenary #Congress #DominiquePradalie #federation #FIJ #FIP #IFJ #IFJ100 #journalism #journalist #Journalists #president #pressfreedom #solidarity #tradeunionism #union #unions
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@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
#unions #tradeunionism #capitalism #workers #socialism #auspol #collectivebargaining #tradeunions -
@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
#unions #tradeunionism #capitalism #workers #socialism #auspol #collectivebargaining #tradeunions -
@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
#unions #tradeunionism #capitalism #workers #socialism #auspol #collectivebargaining #tradeunions -
@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
#unions #tradeunionism #capitalism #workers #socialism #auspol #collectivebargaining #tradeunions -
@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
#unions #tradeunionism #capitalism #workers #socialism #auspol #collectivebargaining #tradeunions -
"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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On December I was fired from a company that specialized in outsourcing the customer support of other companies of many kind. Just saying, if you have an issue with your smartphone, your streaming subscription, the digital services of your car, chances are one of us here in Greece answers. I was fired not because of performance or whatever - I've always done my job well, up to being the top performer of my department once - but because of my syndicalist efforts: I run for the elections of the Locale, have always been vocal about our activities, never missed a strike.
The excuse they've been using until now was "downsizing".
Today, right after filing the final assessment at the Labor Inspectorate, I received an email. From that company. For an opening at the project I was working for that was "downsized".
When we go to court, the judge and I are going to have a long laugh to their faces.
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https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
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>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
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>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
>
>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
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>...
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>Em Geiger:
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>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
>Em Geiger
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>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
>
>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
>
>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
>
>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
>
>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
>
>...
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>Em Geiger:
>
>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
>Em Geiger
>
>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
>
>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
>
>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
>
>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
>
>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
>
>...
>
>Em Geiger:
>
>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
>Em Geiger
>
>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
>
>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
>
>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
>
>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
>
>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
>
>...
>
>Em Geiger:
>
>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
>Em Geiger
>
>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
>
>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
>
>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
>
>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
>
>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
>
>...
>
>Em Geiger:
>
>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
>Em Geiger
>
>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
>
>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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Our struggle ended up on The Guardian, after many other international media outlets. I'm one of the workers who have been affected by the retaliation of #TeleperformanceGreece and have lost the job after 4 years and a half of work - always with short term contracts, crazy workloads and all the possible bullshit you can imagine.
#unionism #tradeunionism #workersstrike #Teleperformance #απεργία_teleperformance #unionbusting
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Our struggle ended up on The Guardian, after many other international media outlets. I'm one of the workers who have been affected by the retaliation of #TeleperformanceGreece and have lost the job after 4 years and a half of work - always with short term contracts, crazy workloads and all the possible bullshit you can imagine.
#unionism #tradeunionism #workersstrike #Teleperformance #απεργία_teleperformance #unionbusting
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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@strght
It's just another sign of his poor knowledge of politics. In former German Democratic Republic it was known as 'Sozialistischer Gruß'. That's why Honecker did it.
'The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement. It is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably #socialism, #communism, #anarchism, and #tradeUnionism'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
@aureliano -
@strght
It's just another sign of his poor knowledge of politics. In former German Democratic Republic it was known as 'Sozialistischer Gruß'. That's why Honecker did it.
'The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement. It is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably #socialism, #communism, #anarchism, and #tradeUnionism'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
@aureliano -
@strght
It's just another sign of his poor knowledge of politics. In former German Democratic Republic it was known as 'Sozialistischer Gruß'. That's why Honecker did it.
'The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement. It is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably #socialism, #communism, #anarchism, and #tradeUnionism'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
@aureliano -
Council of Trade Union Leaders: Ukraine accused of interfering in union affairs through new group | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-council-of-trade-union-leaders-interference/ #Ukraine #TradeUnionism #union
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Council of Trade Union Leaders: Ukraine accused of interfering in union affairs through new group | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-council-of-trade-union-leaders-interference/ #Ukraine #TradeUnionism #union
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Council of Trade Union Leaders: Ukraine accused of interfering in union affairs through new group | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-council-of-trade-union-leaders-interference/ #Ukraine #TradeUnionism #union
