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Let your workers unionize.
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Daishaclaire As much as such displays of "dedication" have become an actual marketing gimmick in our actual cyber dystopia, I'd feel better knowing that your workers were able to collectively bargain with management to ensure that they aren't made to sleep in the office etc.
YaB0iTony Based
Binak You can't go around pretending to be the "good guys" of the industry if you don't allow them to unionize. That's a basic civil right.
##@@##@@ Exactly! Everybody should unionize to defend his or her rights. We must be strong! There is a huge problem with trade unions in Russia. People are not trusting each other and some unethical employers are not paying salary to the people for monthes! This is SLAVERY! Something must be done!
TheRealLoonyToon My vote is in for the meme, also I think workers for most industries should unionize.
CLBrown I find this "wishlist" item to be incredibly STUPID.
First off, as far as I'm aware, the employees at GoG seem to be decently paid, and overall pretty happy. So, why would you even imagine this was an issue?
Second... labor unions served a valuable purpose historically, in the USA at least, when employees were treated as "objects to be used" by business owners.
Unfortunately, in more recent decades, the UNIONS have transformed into the very thing that they claim to be protecting against... groups of people who are NOT EMPLOYEES running "unions" which are MANDATORY for all employees... and taking a "cut" of every single employee's income, whether they want to hand that "cut" over or not.
Basically, modern unions have become just another means of robbing employees. It'd sad, but it's very, very true.
Now, if you can demonstrate that the Gog employees are dissatisfied, are being abused, etc, and have no legal protection or recourse... by all means, do so.
Otherwise, take your POLITICAL AGENDA elsewhere, please.
lcsodep70 No one cares if you'll " feel better". In the free market, supply and demand determine what survives. In the work place. If the pay and conditions don't meet your standards for quality of living. You are FREE to work elsewhere. If there was a large turn around in employee's getting hired and quiting.Then the company would look into as to why that was happening and correct it accordingly.Afterall it is costly to keep hiring and retraining new employee's and would go against what makes companies stay in buisness, their bottom line.
IamWhatIam69 ts ts ts
let your workers unionize.
its fishy if you dont!
BurningSheep No clue what you are talking about gunpuncher. Labour Unions are a good idea everywhere and the stronger they are, the better. If people in democracies aren't organized then things automatically regress.
GunPuncher I can't pretend I know howexactly things work in Poland, but I can't imagine a labor union in a country that spends tax dollars as freely as Poland does would be a good combination, and I think the people over at CD Projekt are well apprised of the danger of that combination.
Telika And your customers too.
Kelldroma позвони еце раз
misterdc Not a Feature, remove thread please.
Gloranor The main reason gog flourishes is because it does right by people.
If it's just a matter of getting the games, there's another big marketplace (they produce lots of hot air). If it is just a matter of getting the games, no DRM strings attached... well, that DRM really never stopped pirates in the first place, so there are other alternatives.
Again, the reason why people don't take those is that gog usually does right by everyone: They don't inflict DRM on their customers, and they get the money to those responsible for getting us those great games. Which includes devs and your staff fixing old games for our new systems, doing support etc.
We pay, here, for the right thing being done right. And the right thing sure as hell includes your people feeling that right is being done by them. Which on one level or another means representation, including usually a union.
kfiresmith +1 agree that your labor pool is your most important asset. Fight the urge to participate in any industry union-busting activities, it'll just further hurt morale and your reputation.
kblood What? The people working at GoG does not have a union and is not allowed to?
Alman Show respect to your workers very lives, let them unionize. ✊
TheWerepyreKing This isn't a feature, this should be removed.
TheWerepyreKing No.
BreathingMeat Anyone who wants to "keep politics out of gaming" is free not to participate in this discussion. Americans: your first amendment rights do not oblige you to talk.
felixsylvaris Yes for labour unions. If i ever need to use customer support i would rather have a helper who got his daily fix of bean bags, safe zone and flipper room.
Also can buy games from many sources, and could pick one which does not create suffering.
eduardomezencio They are certainly allowed to leave and find a job that meet their expectations if they're unhappy. If they are not allowed to leave, then there's a real problem.
LukakoRamen Commies get free helicopter rides!
Tedris4 Company: "Workers have the choice to do what they want"
Worker: "Okay I choose to associate with a union"
C: "I'll fire you if you do that reeeeeee also I'm cutting your pay and if you quit we'll tell other companies and you will never get another job"
W: "Nvm then I would like to live"
And that's why unions don't get made. Crunch time for 3 years with no hazard pay/overtime is inhumane. It isn't "commie" or "political" to want people to be treated like people :T
Wasylus The right to unionize is regulated by the law of the country the company is based in (probably Poland in this case). If you have no knowledge how the law works in said country - and i'm 99% certain most people posting here don't have a clue - then shut up, and leave politics outside.
cphka the law of the country, should ensure that nobody will somehow be restricted or intimidated from doing that.
W_i_c_k_e_r They're not entitled to work there, and they know what they are entitled to to when signing up. They don't live in communist dystopia if you weren't aware.
Kominto like jack32 said, workers don't need employer's permission to unionize. Also, if a worker is unhappy with his work conditions, he can just leave, or sue the employer using the existing laws about the protection of employes.
Vanarill What a horrible suggestion. Just let the free market though its thing.
windcask I'd feel better if you keep your commie politics out of GOG.
Jack32 Lmao workers don't need employer's permission to form a union. They would do it if they wanted to and since they didn't it means they don't feel they need to.
omndra Yo bro, I don't know if you know this bro, but GOG and CD Project Red are not the same company bro. GOG might not utilize the same kind of crunchy unorganized dictatorship as their neighbors bro.
mrredhatter I don't know what union culture is like across the pond. But here in the states trade unions are mafia violence and murder.
plasticsoda what
BarcodeBattler The worst reason in the world to unionise is because of focus testing.
yodahome Really should go without saying imho. It's the 21st century.
KnightW0lf once there unionize make sure to bring the cost of the games up at lest $10-$20 more pre game so you can afford the wages.
jpvg Union = Price Cartel for Labor. Cartels are bad mmkay?
phobesares You are kidding me, right?
Hobs if their workers dont like the conditions created by their employment, they are free to leave, as soon as you create a union environment it becomes an "us vs them" scenario and their conditions will deteriorate faster
dubarbosa It's the least any company can do, refrain from intervening on workers freedom to organize, debate on their labor conditions, propose change to company managers and owners, demand to be heard. Everyone stands to gain from a little democracy, especially in the workplace.
ipeople do their workers even want to?
jjj0309 Haha
No.
Wratheon This has nothing to do with a "features" or any of the topics in the Community Wishlist.
Randall1976 what does this wish have to do with bringing new games/films/features to <a href="http://gog.com?" class="light_un" target="_blank">gog.com?</a>
darknase That's a actually a strawman's falicy. It has (essentially) nothing to do
with the amount paid, but about working conditions or in a broader sense
exploitation of workforces.
By having a union (or multiple for that matter) all workers are the same. Same
work, same pay. No: This contract says all overtime hours are void (i.e. gone)
at the end of the month, but the other one doesn't.
Eight (8) hours workdays come from that, "single payer" health insurance (NHS),
payed leave, maternity leave, insurance for the way to and from the work place,
or if someone does something in the name of the company, regulation of
overtime compensation. Yes, a lot of these are now codified as laws. Our (EU)
grand-grand-grand-parents fought for these things, via unions and it needs
unions to not get to american situation where amazon drivers pee in bottles
and have 12+ hours work days without breaks and still earn less than minium
wage. Thus that overall 60+% of the USofA workers can't afford a 1000 USD
emergency.
Yes, it "unionisies" workers, makes them - each single one - harder to
exploit, pushing them to "crunch time", cutting of access to "free drinks", or
closing the cantine, by just cutting it "because it's not neccessary" or to
expensive (it's healthier than Nestle Pizza - which is made with slave
labour, btw. - and healthy == productive), or similar stupid ideas.
On the other hand, one get's - among other thing -: No envy between workers,
which makes happier workers, which makes them better workers, which makes them
more productive.
Unions can make sure that in times of the proverbial "belt tightening",
everybody, high and low in the hierarchy tightens. That if the boss comes with
a new Porsche when he just laid of 10% of the workers questions are _openly_
asked and answered.
All that and many many more things. One of which is: Pay raises. Which, again
as pointed out before, while it still may be complex, it's just two voices,
the boss/owner's and the union's simpifying the whole process's inter
communication and thus effiency and thus the efficacy.
delindsay There is aboslutely zero 'need' for a Union as long as a Company pays at or above the going rate for that Industry's Job type. As far as I've read (you can't trust what you read on the Internet) it would seem that CDPR's pay is a bit low for Poland but comparing it to Average pay within Game Studios in the USA it's not actually that low. Everything is relative folks, don't follow the rabbit down the hole if you have no idea what's in the hole.
The_Ghost Hey, I'm all for sleeping in the office, the place is WAY cleaner than my apartment and there's a microwave that works!
What I'm not in favor of is not having the OPTION to go home to my pathetic apartment full of diseased squatter hobbits with the neighbors that scream at each other so loud it drowns out their Icelandic death/thrash metal. I want to be able to sleep in my patched together layers of blankets, quilts, afghans, memory-foam mats, and sheets that haven't been washed in a month because the only laundromat for ten miles burned down a year ago without my coworkers being all judgy.
I'm a union man, blood and bone: always have been, always will be. I've never worked a non-union job, if I can avoid it I don't shop at non-union stores. Unions are what made America a country worth living in and dying for. You notice, when we stopped having them, it stopped being both. Now we've got Captain Cheeto in charge, children are being locked up in abandoned Walmarts, and they're passing these so-called 'right to work' laws to eliminate unions.
If you want a strong company, let your workers unionize. If you want a strong country, let your workers unionize!
LadyBorg Oh yes, that feature would be awesome! I actually will refrain from requesting any other. Yup
darknase Think about the savings (by grabthar's hammer), if the management has to only bargain once and not each individual. All they "busy work" of what group what and will be organised in said union, plus it creates a feeling of community in the work force. IMO every worker should be auto-signed in the union @ CDPR && GOG.
ChicknDuck *unionise you murican.
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