| Ryuu96 said: "The union will represent a wide variety of disciplines across Blizzard Entertainment including designers, engineers, artists, and support staff. A Diablo game producer and organizing committing member said that the mass layoffs at Microsoft were a major factor in rallying the unionization drive. "With every subsequent round of mass layoffs, I've witnessed the dread in my coworkers grow stronger because it feels like no amount of hard work is enough to protect us," they said. "This is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of living in fear."" 450 Diablo Developers Vote To Unionize Under CWA Love to see it, every single developer under Microsoft needs to unionise, it won't stop the firings but they can make it as painful as possible for Microsoft and maybe make them think twice about certain ones. |
Its not about making things painful to MS because this isn't a MS thing, this is how businesses work in the US. What they should concentrate on is making sure they are fairly treated and that when layoffs does happen they are well compensated with insurance and severance pay. Believing they are going to punish MS for deciding to move in a different direction if they so choose will not only not work but will be a sure fire way for MS to punt the whole division away.
