[brandonmenc]

> Software engineer unions are coming, and it will start with the games industry.

And it will end there.

Video games are more like movies than they are like other kinds of software, and the labor to produce them should resemble the movie business - not the software business.

That means a bunch of union members get hired for the production itself, for the duration of the production - not "indefinitely" for the distributor like they are now - and when the game is done, the production company for that individual game and all its labor is disbanded, and then everyone finds another production - possibly from a completely different distributor - to work on.

Except they'll all know this upfront and they'll be unionized, which mitigates the downside (ex: they'll get their health insurance from the union, not from Sony or EA or whoever.)

[MAGZine]

Except that's not how software works anymore. Everything is moving to long-term SaaS and subscription. Production never ends until the lights turn off.