Its time show the fat cats that they can't fuck with us!
>For those who don’t understand why these workers go on strike since they’re supposedly all going to be laid off anyways, let me explain:
>In France, as in many other European countries, you cannot just willy nilly decide to close down an office and turn 300 people jobless. By law there are certain conditions that must apply before you’re legally allowed to do so. Unions (who have relatively more power in Europe than in say the UK or US) tend to fight massive lay-offs like these and have even won court cases against employers, forcing them to cancel lay-offs like this.
>Second, even if the lay-off is inevitable the strike could prove useful. Blizzard would ofcourse like to lay off most of these people on their terms. Should the unions fail to prevent a lay-off alltogether, striking may succesfully force Blizzard to the negotiating table and serve to levy strenght in the workers favour there, perhaps guaranteeing them better severance conditions.
>TL;DR: Union activity (such as strikes) can potentially cancel a lay-off. If not, the strike could force Blizzard to agree to better severance conditions for the workers.
Do you support this, Zig Forums? What does it mean for the games?
Hope that this will somehow damage Blizzard. The Company has been greedy for too long.
Brandon Jackson
based unlucky prepatch tho
Jacob Wilson
Sounds like a good way to ensure companies completely leave your country and never come back. Also, I hope Blizzard burns and everyone who was involved in it at a position above low-level grunt never works in the game industry again.
Nicholas Ortiz
Something like this happened when Wal-Mart tried to do business in Germany.
Brody Price
ahahaha
Cameron Morgan
>we're closing the office >nu-uh you can't close it and to prove it we're all going to stop working how is a strike supposed to stop the offices from shutting down?
Owen Diaz
Of course I support it. Worst case scenario, struggling devs get a slightly better deal. Best case scenario, Activision-Blizzard get fucked up the arse. Fuck Blizzard.
Connor Mitchell
walmart's response to any attempt to make them not treat their workers like shit is ALWAYS fuck you we're leaving, they shut down entire stores to stop employees from trying to unionize
David Gonzalez
Well yes, that's the aim. Either you conform to standards or get the fuck out. It's no different to demanding a company, for example, not share its user data with its authoritarian foreign government or else get out.
Parker Harris
>Sounds like a good way to ensure companies completely leave your country and never come back You mean, like Blizzard intended to do by closing their national branch there?
i don't get it? why would going on strike convince blizzard to NOT close down the office? wouldn't it just make their decision even easier since they're not working anyway?
Grayson Fisher
Lmao at the "this is why unions are bad" clowns.
Without militant unions you and your children would still be working inhumane hours 7 days a week. Every bit of labour protections was fought for by actions like these. And now, after long decades of union power being eroded, you mock them for trying to protect workers from being laid off in the middle of a pandemic? No union is without its flaws, and some are terrible (usually "company unions"), but even a bad union is better than no union when your job is on the line.
Owen Robinson
Americans like you are so retarded you couldn't even read the post
Jack Hernandez
This isn't because of the office shutdown, Wednesday is just striking day in France.
Ian Green
>they shut down entire stores to stop employees from trying to unionize Happened in Canada when all the workers in one store unionized.
Matthew Rodriguez
Most of Zig Forums is middle class Americans who've never had to work a working class job in their life. To them, unions only exist to be annoying and make things cost more. Of course they hate unions.
Luke Turner
but blizzard supports LBGTQP and BLM they are communist heroes, you nazi shitlord
Easton Sanders
Unions and strikes are fuckin gay if u dont like it go find a job somewhere else
Joseph Ward
>ActiBlizz getting fucked based >non-employees that do PR and other non-dev shit getting fucked also based i'm conflicted
Aaron Peterson
Is that not what a strike is
Daniel Robinson
>wow streamer is so deluded he thinks he is a blizzard employee Only asmongold controls blizzard
Jose Martinez
The only white collar job that needs a union is vidya programmers.
Carter Taylor
Stupid fucking american
Justin King
>white collar Middle class* Vidya developers are only middle class culturally, in terms of money and conditions they're right down the shitter
Ian Moore
>it's time to show >fat cats >they can't fuck with /us/
not your personal army.
Connor Ross
I don't give a fuck >but you posted in this thread because in this there is something I give a fuck about, laughing at you retarded westcucks. No really, "UWAAAAAA SO ANTI-CONSUMER.... BOYCOTSTRIKEBOYCOTSTRIKE-OHMYGOD WOWZA IS THAT OVERWATCH 2?????"
You do know you are expected to work till the very last second you're laid off right? This frogs aren't sitting there doing nothing, strikes still mess up with deliverables.
Isaac Miller
So how's NEET life treating you?
Brody Stewart
>bad for Blizzard and bad for France, no matter the outcome
Thats the power of propaganda, it's frankly amazing and horrifying. Unions were a thing in the US up to the 60s, and then got dismantled during the red scare and it never recovered.
