Union Yes for Game Developers - DTNS 5094
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We ask a developer why unions are important for them, and why US restrictions are improving China’s chip development.
Starring Tom Merritt, and Huyen Tue Dao.
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| 1:06.9 | Thank you. Oh, this? This is the daily tech news for Friday, August 29th, 2025. We tell you what we need to know. We follow up on context. We're going to do that specifically today. And we try to help each other understand. |
| 1:26.7 | Today, why do developers want |
| 1:29.0 | to unionize? We'll ask a developer, namely me. Yay. Well, that's convenient. I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm going to it now. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. |
| 1:41.2 | 450 workers in Blizzard's Diablo team have formed a union represented by the communications workers of America. |
| 1:49.7 | That includes Diablo's developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff. |
| 1:55.1 | The Diablo team wants to bargain for the things you might expect in a union, improved compensation, job security, workplace |
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