cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide... - ThreadSky

nathangrayson.bsky.social • 1 day ago

cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems

https://aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-video-game-union-microsoft-trump-musk

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kellyarekayyeo.com•1 day ago

let’s fucking go!!!

dpandaheart.bsky.social•1 day ago

HELL YES

robb.doering.ai•1 day ago

Pretty fascinating to see a threat of violence written out so clearly. I wonder what the legal limits of such a thing are (in a law-abiding US)...

I guess the right wing has said "if we don't win this election we'll attack the left" for years (forever?), so this is tame by comparison!

robb.doering.ai•1 day ago

But without that "if..." clause, it gets more interesting. Surely you can't threaten violence against a specific boss, but can you say "I want to hurt bosses in general"...?

Regardless of the feasibility of that brave closer, ✊✊✊. Obviously.

heyaitsteja.bsky.social•1 day ago

I believe the threat here is about strikes and industrial action, not violence

robb.doering.ai•1 day ago

😬 fair I lowkey forgot that illegal strikes were a thing you could do without it necessarily coming to violence. Thanks for correcting my embarrassing mistake!

jfk-the-wanderer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every person in tech should unionize, especially MAANG! Why they haven't yet is one of life's mysteries.

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nathangrayson.bsky.social•1 day ago

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