Escapist Calls For Industry Unionization

amitlu writes "In the Friday edition of the Escapist, Joe Blancato challenges the industry to compare itself to skilled labor of the past, and says it's time to organize. From the article: 'If we continue at the rate we're going, we're either going to be worrying about a bunch of college-aged kids with computer science degrees working at McDonald's, too disillusioned to continue in their chosen field or worse, the position they previously held was moved overseas to a more bottom line-friendly locale. For the sake of trying to save money on production costs, why not ship off art production to Romania? Or customer service to India? But to paraphrase the old cliché: First they came for the artists, and I said nothing...'"

Comments

Yea

[ClownsScareMe]

To curb outsourcing?

Right, because union workers are much more attractive hires.

What about the political donations

[heinousjay]

Joining a union is pretty much pledging a portion of your salary to the DNC. I don't need that mess.