Bernie Sanders takes to Twitter to endorse video game unionization

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, a candidate for President of the United States in the impending election season, said in a Tweet today that he supports the unionization of game developers.

Sharing a link to a Times story on burnout and unionization, Sanders Tweeted:


Unions protect workers from cruel labor conditions, and until recently, the games industry has seen little to no unionization. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says he “can’t imagine” why developers would want to unionize when they’re paid so well.

Good pay isn’t compensation for crunch, though – when game developers are strong armed into working long hours close to a game’s launch. Numerous studios suffer from crunch, and with the industry trending toward live service games, developers are forced into a constant state of it as they continue supporting games long after release.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/06/18/bernie-sanders-endorses-unionization/

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slaughtercellPosted:

I worked at a job that was part of the union and that job sucked and the union takes from your pay check... the union will only give you advice but cant really do anything cause it's some guy on the phone that could really care less.

kimPosted:

LebronIs6 Cool story bro, everyone here in the forums definitely loves politics haha


How dare we gamers care about who runs the country you're right we all hate politics lol we don't care about anything other than games

LebronIs6Posted:

Cool story bro, everyone here in the forums definitely loves politics haha