I mean this feels like it should be illegal. Another reason to not buy Ubisoft games I guess.
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I believe it is already illegal, but the ultra rich don't expect enforcement, so they don't care.
It'll be a fine, which will be massaged away into a "cost of business expense".
it is but it's a proven successful strategy most of the time anyways since it's cheaper to pay to fines than the lawsuit and 95% of the time the union doesn't have to funds to pay for capable legal representation to force the issue so that they result in those fines in the first place.
Guess I'll just keep boycotting them
Yeah. It pisses me off that I've already been boycotting them for years. I want to boycott them harder, but it doesn't work like that.
You can seed torrents of their games.
But the closure would certainly have nothing to do with union busting, right? Riiiight?
I knew they were going to do this after I heard they unionized. But this quickly is crazy
Cunts.
I guess my 13 year abstention from purchasing Ubisoft games continues (bought HoMMVI and experienced Uplay in 2012, vowed never again).
Shit tier company
Guess they get all the benefits and security for being fired while unionized then.
That's not how this work.
Just being in a union doesn't mean there are any benefits. The union has to have negotioated such terms previously and given how recently the union was formed I highly doubt that's the case.
I thought that since they joined an established Union that something would be in place already? I'm not expert but this part made me think maybe so: "Ubisoft Halifax's employees voted to unionize with the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada, which is itself part of CWA (Communications Workers of America) in Canada. The union was officially certified six months after employees announced their intentions to unionize, and after 74% of eligible employees consisting of producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testing voted in favor." Still no clue, just assumed.