Visual effects crews at Walt Disney Studios have taken a significant step to unionize after filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an election to unionize. A supermajority (over …
I’m actually the reverse of this, a former programmer who is now a school bus driver (and a Teamster). Another bullet point for your list would be that programmers tend to think of themselves as being a lot better than most other programmers and thus deserving of much better compensation. The general union mindset of everybody getting paid the same (or more based purely on seniority rather than ability) doesn’t really fit very well with that - even though it’s necessary to prevent managers from using workers against each other.
Yep, you’re 100% right. People who have the same job can be paid dramatically differently, and the “reasoning” is that one guy is better at things than the other.
I got a 9% raise this year because I outperformed everyone else on my team, but I know that my 9% raise came at the expense of someone who only got a 2% raise. A union contract would give everyone like a 4-5% raise, which people dislike because they always think they’re going to be the ones on top of the totem pole.
Me? I want predictability. Game dev is extremely unpredictable.
I’m actually the reverse of this, a former programmer who is now a school bus driver (and a Teamster). Another bullet point for your list would be that programmers tend to think of themselves as being a lot better than most other programmers and thus deserving of much better compensation. The general union mindset of everybody getting paid the same (or more based purely on seniority rather than ability) doesn’t really fit very well with that - even though it’s necessary to prevent managers from using workers against each other.
Yep, you’re 100% right. People who have the same job can be paid dramatically differently, and the “reasoning” is that one guy is better at things than the other.
I got a 9% raise this year because I outperformed everyone else on my team, but I know that my 9% raise came at the expense of someone who only got a 2% raise. A union contract would give everyone like a 4-5% raise, which people dislike because they always think they’re going to be the ones on top of the totem pole.
Me? I want predictability. Game dev is extremely unpredictable.