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...'"

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Re:What about the political donations

[Scudsucker]

So you must be self employed then, or work for a small company...because the vast majority of companies ARE politically active at the local, state or federal level.

Oh, and I was going to add: at least with a union, you can democratically vote on where this money goes. Good luck having a say in where corporate donations go, unless you are a major shareholder.