[spullara]

I am skeptical there is any customer benefit from unionization and it makes me concerned that MTG Arena might not be around for long term. As a big customer, I am worried about my investment in the platform with this announcement. MTGO still exists, I wish it had a better client.

[advisedwang]

> I am skeptical there is any customer benefit

Unions aren't really there for customer service. Nonetheless, there's often times where the worker demand benefit customers too: Nurses fight for better nurse:patient ratios, benefiting patients too; teachers fight for the resources for them to teach well; starbucks baristas fight for a work pace that allows them to actually engage customers like the brand used to offer. etc

[awesome_dude]

Unions rarely form because everyone is being treated well (humanely) and/or paid appropriately.

The extreme is, are you only happy when your products are created in sweatshops, or, worse, by slaves?

[spullara]

since some of their gripes are "use ai" and "rto" I don't think we are talking about a sweatshop.

[sabedevops]

Stability of development, features etc is to the customer's benefit.

[tjwebbnorfolk]

Have Magic customers been clamoring for Magic's employees to unionize for the past 30 years? This benefit you purport strikes me as purely hypothetical and possibly wrong: if they can't downsize when they need to, they could go out of business completely.

[Timon3]

Unions don't prevent downsizing when it is actually necessary. What they do prevent is downsizing to goose the stock price, and that is good for the customer.

[tjwebbnorfolk]

GM circa 2008 would like to have a word

[Timon3]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the specifics. Can you link clear proof that unions were preventing necessary downsizing, and that this downsizing would have saved the company?