“noting that the studio is still working toward legally becoming a co-op.”
Its so fuckin cringe how they are still messing around and havent gone coop yet. Its really not that hard. It’s so fishy. Going around saying you are a coop when you aren’t is unethical.
The whole thing belongs to the founders 100% and the coop stuff is functionally theatre as far as anyone is concerned. They own all the IP. None of the workers have any of the legal privileges afforded to them by a worker cooperative, only what the founders decided is “cooperative bahaviour”.
I’ve known these guys since college and when they founded the place. At this point, I think they are posers.
I’m sorry to the people who lost their jobs and that your bosses outsourced it to your peers to fabricate consent.
Eventfully layoffs are a necessity. Hopefully the studio and its workers have the good sense to forbid any bonuses in the near future. Nothing pisses me off as much as layoffs followed by buybacks, campaign contributions, and massive bonuses.
Everyone at the studio, which was roughly 30 people prior to the cuts, makes the same amount of money, $90K CAD ($63K USD)
Game industry is really on the edge.
Knowing what salaries are in Montreal, they must have been bumping up against funding partners saying 90k a year for everyone (before other benefits?) is wildly unsustainable.
Interesting. That’s the difference between the cooperative movement and the syndicalist; democratic decision at the industrial level allow some leverage against capitalists and not self-exploitation
This studio sounds super awesome.
