Looking at their website, it has obvious socialism / communism design influences. I hope these activists fail to get a foothold in the industry. These are not the type of people I want to work with and it would be bad for the stock price.
Negotiating solo against a large organization with an available labor pool is the weakest possible position, even if the type of talent is in demand. I'd argue that people always want the power in compensation negotiations that's only obtainable by forming strong associations. It's just a matter of whether they can get it or not based on the political power of their counterparties. This type of conflict has been happening since the dawn of civilization.
This is all opinionistic, but use a bit of logic here. Ask yourself what a union is and what the incentives are.
Which website are you looking at?
Unless I'm mistaken, the website is https://uvw-cwa.org/ and it isn't even red, have no hammers/sickles, and mostly talks about "stronger together", which fair enough, I guess could give some knee-jerk reaction about socialism if you don't believe in working together with others.
This is red. And look at the zine cover.
Do more than judge a book by the color of its cover next time to communicattion such design language.
- it's a "Union," founded by "We the people" rather than being subjects subservient to an ordained ruler
- It has revolutionary ideals at its core
- There are fasces everywhere, an overt symbol of collective effort
- Right out of the gate, the US socialized one of the largest industries: transporting mail across the nation. Founders wrote it into the Constitution to ensure that it was untouchable
- To go along with that, the interstate highway system is a massive, communal project
- The most politically untouchable service, something politicians practically place on an altar, is a massive wealth redistribution scheme: Social Security
Beyond all this I didn't see a single thing on that site that has socialism design influences, which frankly makes it sort of un-American.
Okay, and why is this exactly bad? After all, the workers behind games want to get better working environments and they use the workers' movements symbolism in representing this. Also, class solidarity.
> These are not the type of people I want to work with
And you don't have to. You can always go indie and not associate yourself with people who organise themselves for the sake of a better industry. No one's forcing you to have solidarity and no one is forced to have solidarity with you.
> and it would be bad for the stock price.
I'll be frank (and a tad polemical) but if an industry cannot maintain its value without exploiting its workers, it shouldn't exist. That's just the free market at work.
But, well yes. In many countries outside NA, unions are affiliated with left-wing parties.