So, just so I get this straight. You saw an article of a sequel to a game you refer to as “mediocre”, saw the length of the article, and decided “I’m going to go the comment section and complain about something I don’t enjoy”. Does that sum it up?

Independent contractors aren’t employees, so they can’t have unions.

This is why you unionize. Except we won’t fucking do it because as Americans we’re apparently broken at such a fundamental level we think we deserve this treatment to get ahead. And who told you that...?

Y'all motherfuckers need unions

yuuuuuuuuup. exodus is a little better in this regard, but honestly not by all that much. anna is still mostly a damsel, and katya is a nurse. it’s implied that two other prominent women characters do cool things, but we don’t ever really get to see it happen. and then they’re gone shortly after, never to be seen…

I’ve mentioned this before, but in the last game we never actually saw Anna actually snipe anybody. All she really did was get captured by Nazis and have sex with Artyom.

YOU MEAN HISTORY IS COMPLICATED?????

Unions have been weakened since the day Reagan went ballistic and fired 11000 air traffic controllers for striking. After that, all bets were off. People fought like hell for to unionize and because of that unions became prominent in the late 30s/early 40s but their time at the top was only a few decades and Reagan…

I’m teach at two different colleges and if it weren’t for our unions, I couldn’t make a living doing it. I absolutely encourage every stepped on group of workers to form a union and get some power. 

“Companies being forced to pay overtime now means their costs are going to be multiplied by 3 or 4"

In many software sectors, you sign an agreement to not unionize as a condition of employment. If you so much as entertain the idea, then you will be out the door. And there will be hundreds of engineers right there waiting to take your seat. Either recent grads, contractors, or recently unemployed as part of a lay-off…

The trend of granting rights to corporations as people, especially under equal protection of the 14th amendment traces back to the 19th century. Corportations were seen as people long before the Citizens United decision.

I disagree there. Government employee unions are also necessary, as many state governments are paying absolute garbage to employees following the elimination of their unions.

Yeah, sports is another place where I will never get it. Trust me, as a Cubs fan, I know too well from this offseason how idiots will contort themselves to justify the Ricketts not spending any of their billions on free agents to stay under a luxury tax that the fans have nothing to do with.

Because in America we’ve been convinced by the money of major corporations that unions = evil and are to blame for every minor inconvenience out there. It’s not just gamers who have become corporate fanboys; in baseball right now there are a surprising number of fans who fully support paying for tickets so the owners…

I’ve done the same, and I’m not hurting - today. Tomorrow could be a different story though, and we both would have no other leverage than to say “I’m leaving”.

Even within my union I negotiate to receive better. I’m not just sitting idly by while others make those decisions for me. The collective bargaining is to protect workers who are skilled at their craft who may not be good at negotiating and to stop people in positions of power from exploiting their employees.

I do love the content of these articles regarding the actual employment side of the video games industry and I wholly agree that unionization needs to happen en masse for workers to ever get a fair shake. Sadly, as I have seen so many times in these comments, there are thousands waiting to take the side of management,…

The war between Capital and Labor goes back a lot longer than 40 years. It’s important to keep the broad history of capitalism and the labor movement in mind in order to make sense of what can seem like random acts of cruelty and injustice.

You know what, I’m gonna respond to your grey ass because this needs explaining. Unions didn’t cause the decline of US steel and car making, shitty business practices did. American industry rode high on a superiority complex and failed to upgrade facilities or, in the case of auto makers, make even halfway decent cars…