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Dragon Age 4 QA Devs Say They’re Unionizing Over Bad Pay And COVID Safety
3The video game industry is currently undergoing a small but unprecedented wave of developer organising. Last week it even reached the halls of famed RPG maker BioWare, where a group of QA contractors working on Dragon Age 4 revealed their intention to unionize. The two biggest reasons why? Bad pay and concerns over a full-time…
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Nintendo Worker Files Complaint With National Labour Relations Board
On April 15, an anonymous employee filed a complaint against Nintendo and contracting company Aston Carter with the National Labour Relations Board. The public case docket lists allegations of coercive statements, discharge, retaliation against concerted activities, and surveillance.
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Epic Games Turning Hundreds Of Contract-Based Workers Into Full-Timers
Epic Games is offering full-time employment to “a few hundred” of its contract workers, a needed win for its short-term staff. Workers in the video games industry have had it pretty rough recently. Efforts to unionise and fight for better working conditions in the face of entrenched corporate bureaucracy have been growing in ever larger…
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Call Of Duty Maker Reveals Plan To Squash Union Effort
Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognise their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labour Review Board, and called on that vote to include everyone at…