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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does this work exactly? My familiarity with Unions is that either they're created inside an existing company, or a union gets people to unionize at a company. The idea with both of this situations is that all the workers leaving would be detrimental for the company so the company has to give into the Union Demands to some extent.

With my unfamiliarity with with this video game union, it seems they've just created one, but wouldn't that mean that a company has to decide to hire workers from this union? My understanding with the game industry is there's thousands of experienced people that will work for cheap, so I feel most game companies will have options vs union workers.

Also, I hope they publish the games they are involved in so i can support them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

If you're in a union already, that is not something that can generally be asked about by management, both at hiring or during your employment. Being in a union is not the same as being in a unionized workplace.

When employees of a store/factory/etc decide to unionize, there's a point at which a specific larger union can be chosen to represent them (AFL-CIO, IBEW, Teamsters, etc). If successful, this is what allows for collective bargaining led by a union representative.