Hundreds of video game workers join a new federation where Trump attacks the rights of work

Among the goals of UVW-CWA, as included before Zine: the formulation of video game rights workers in uniting working conditions, including employing inequality, crisis, contracting health care, in theory, this would give the organizers a common vision. “Our struggle does not happen in isolation, and we will need all the help we can get in the face of the departments of most workers in our lives,” she says.

Previous video game unions were formed under specific departments such as quality guarantee, within one development team. United VideoGames is open to any game worker in the United States and Canada, regardless of where they work or if they are currently working.

CWA WIRED organizers tell that the direct federation “has not been created in isolation from others, but was built from the global organization at the level of industry” since the union’s efforts in 2020 in the game industry. “The dismantling of the current administration of the Labor Law urges the organizers and unions to think about building the authority of workers in various ways,” Kenima told Wire.

Federation’s efforts continue to make games. On March 21, the Activision User Research Company voted for acting and was recognized by the parent company Microsoft. On April 1, Zenimax UNITED workers – a union formed in January 2023 with more of 300 quality assurance workers – raised – Delegate a strike.

“Our quality guarantee team is an integral part of our business, the key to our ability to provide the games that our player will love,” Microsoft spokesman Will Picky told Wire. Microsoft says it has made a package proposal that includes immediate compensation increases, among other benefits, and initial agreements have been reached on most of the topics.

With more than 400 members, UVW is already larger than some of the previous units that were formed within a specific team.

“What is due to everything in the context of direct accession is: Are there enough workers in the union? Do they adequately adhere to each other and struggle to improve wages, hours and working conditions, so that they can force the employer to bargain.”

“It is not a law, but as an issue of authority.”