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Incredibly proud of the bravery and hard work that made this happen - y'all are amazing 🙌✊

Desde CSVI queremos dar toda nuestra solidaridad y apoyo a les compañeres de @gameworkers.co.uk afectades por represión antisindical en Rockstar Games. ¡Basta ya de este régimen del miedo contra la clase trabajadora organizada! ¡Exigimos la readmisión de nuestras compañeras! ✊❤️‍🔥

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

If you're a member of Amazon's video game division and would like to talk (confidentially or otherwise) about the company's latest cuts and AI push, please feel free to reach out. DMs open. Email in bio. Signal QR code pinned.

TLDR: tech workers, get organized! The Alphabet Workers Union has issued a statement in response to Amazon’s announcement that it will lay off 14,000 corporate workers: “Now is the time for us to stand together collectively, so we have power and a real voice in our industry.”

From The Anthem to the 9:30 Club, the workers who keep DC’s live music beating are unionizing—and that’s something to dance about. Behind every sold-out show are people setting up, cleaning up, and keeping the crowd safe. They deserve to be respected, protected and paid. https://seiu.co/3WSgX2a

Our annual Circuit Breakers conference is live! 300 tech workers spanning the US, Mexico, Philippines, India and Kenya working in different layers of the global value chain gather across 40-different worker-led sessions exchanging strategies and tactics! Afterwards we will digitize sessions!

More exciting video game union news: Team 5 is joining CWA 💪 "We chose to organize in pursuit of a collective voice and a force of solidarity that the industry cannot ignore."

Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble developers unionize to combat 'instability and unfair conditions'

Big week for unions at Blizzard as Hearthstone team also votes 'yes' aftermath.site/hearthstone-un...

Congrats to nearly 400 more workers at Blizzard Entertainment for voting to form a union with @codecwa.bsky.social! With a stronger voice, they have the power to bargain for a contract that will set the standard for video game workers everywhere. #BetterInAUnion

EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Blizzard Entertainment Platform and Technology workers unionize under CWA

Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires aftermath.site/battle-net-wor...

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social! “We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

Solidarity with LAT journalists!

🗣️The Future Of The Tech Industry Is Unionized! “The way layoffs happened at Google, where it wasn’t clear what the reason for people getting laid off was, definitely created a sense of job insecurity & mistrust,” said AWU Prez Parul Koul @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Since we last shared an update on bargaining, we’ve received additional information about management salaries at Rewire. The TLDR: The pay discrepancy between management and union members is deeply unsettling.

NEW: ICE is attacking journalists in Chicago, and the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social is fighting back. "Journalism is not a crime," @jschleuss.com told @axios.com. The 1st Amendment makes press freedom a cornerstone of our democracy, and we will fight to defend it. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

Listen to AFGE President Everett Kelley: Federal workers aren’t pawns in political games—they inspect our food, care for veterans, conduct research that keeps workers safe and so much more. They make America run. The Trump admin’s Project 2025/DOGE agenda hurts everyone.

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️ As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨 AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom. cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Everyone’s health insurance premiums could skyrocket and millions could lose their health care. Congress must permanently extend the ACA’s tax credits. Nobody can afford this health care crisis, and time is running out.

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈 This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers." We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are up against unprecedented corporate CEO greed and inequality. We stand in solidarity with Starbucks baristas across the country as they fight for their fair share of the profits THEY create.

Googlers For Job Security made PIX11 News last night! Tech workers refuse to be divided; we're fighting for job security for ALL of us. Join the movement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/job-security

Calling all tech organizers! 💻💪 tickets are open for Circuit Breakers 2025! It will be a weekend of sessions, workshops, and talks on topics in the industry, including the importance of rank and file organizing. Grab a ticket here!

HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation! Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...

Don’t try this at home; organize a union instead! Join AWU and @brainstormmedia.bsky.social for a virtual screening of #AmericanSweatshop on Mon 9/29 at 8 PM ET followed by a panel discussion featuring creatives behind the film and AWU members who handle trust and safety content.

Spotted: AWU members on Google campuses from coast to coast talking to our coworkers about Googlers For Job Security ✊

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

Happy Labor Day from CWA! A message from CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.: cwa-union.org/news/labor-d...

Diablo Team Unionizes Over AI, Remote Work, And 'Passion Tax' Of Working In Games

450 Diablo developers vote to unionize under CWA

like the overwatch and world of warcraft teams before them, over 450 diablo devs have voted to unionize. last year's mass microsoft layoffs convinced them to start organizing, but this year's kicked things into high gear

Diablo devs unionize following layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI, pay aftermath.site/diablo-union...

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪

As recent waves of layoffs impact our fellow workers and union members, we see again and again how little the word of your boss means when it is not backed up by a union contract or challenged with collective action.

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

Thank you SO much to all of those who were able to attend our town hall this evening about the Game Workers' Bill of Rights. Your solidarity means everything. We are building a better games industry TOGETHER. ❤️✊🎮

📣 TONIGHT!!!! 🔥 Over 150 people have already registered for tonight's industry town hall as we discuss the Game Workers' Bill of Rights. What do you think should be included? Come have your voice be heard!

Help create the future of the games industry! On 8/20, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here: uvw-cwa.org/townhall-reg...

I chatted with @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social about how the UVW Freelancing Committee is committed to establishing crediting standards industry-wide. Thank you for writing this, Nicole! ❤️✊ If you’re in the US or Canada and ready for the industry to change, check out @videogameworkers.bsky.social

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Hell yeah, another Blizzard union aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

The amazing storytellers in SFD have unionized! Blizzard Unions now include: * WoWGG-CWA * OWGG-CWA * DiabloGG-CWA * Blizzard Story and Franchise “These workers are setting the standard for animation, cinematics, and storytelling across the video game industry” cwa-union.org/news/release...