The United States, depending on the region, can count on many unions or not. The truth is that, Believe it or not, in companies video games This legal figure did not exist until recently as Vodeo Games.
One of the fields that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years has been entertainment.Especially anything related to video games. Many of us may have thought about studying programming to develop, at least, a video game. It was probably the dream, or still is for many.
The truth is that in a country where there are cities that are highly unionized, like New York, for example. And others that aren't so unionized. They're now appearing in the world of video games. And it most likely won't be the last.
There were already movements that were growing after everything that happened in came to light. Blizzard. This has led 13 full-time employees of Vodeo Games to form their union. The same ones who recently released his first video game, Beast Breaker for Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC. In addition, they are working on a second video game.
One of the things that stands out is that the company accepted his creation without any problem. It is worth noting that these employees work remotely throughout the United States and Canada..
Vodeo designer Carolyn Jong comments that they were inspired by their colleagues at Voltage and Paizo.They saw the need to set a positive precedent in the industry.
They agreed to have unions, internal company bodies separate from management, to safeguard workers' rights.
Bungie and Blizzard inspired Vodeo
Surely these cases inspired people to create unions. Vodeo is the first.
Another precedent was the case of Bungie, a company accused of having a toxic work environmentA few days ago, an employee named Gayle d'Hondt reported being harassed by one of the executives. So she decided to leave her job. She said this behavior had been going on at the company for a long time. Although they've tried to change this situation in recent years, things aren't going so well.
The problems of Activision Blizzard They started once that California Department of Fair Employment and Housing She sued the company. After a two-year investigation, the results revealed a terrible work environment: workplace harassment and unfair measures against women, such as lack of promotions and issues related to pregnancy and breastfeeding.
As a curious note, It is important to mention that unions were born in the United States in 1792After a carpenters' strike that began in 1791, the first union was created. What they wanted was a wage increase, which was achieved thanks to this organization.
Although strikes had been held before in various industries, it wasn't until that year that the first one was created. It took more than 200 years for employees of a video game company to create the first one in this sector.
Tell us, have you worked in companies with organized unions? What do you think about these organizations? Did you know about this Vodeo case?
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