A new campaign launched by one of the nation's largest labor unions is aimed specifically at unionizing video game and tech companies. SamAugustDean explains:
The last two years have witnessed a wave of walkouts, petitions and other workplace actions at video game and tech companies.employees at no major video game studios and only a handful of tech offices have formally voted to form or join a union.
The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees is a new project of the Communications Workers of America aimed specifically at unionizing video game and tech companies.It grew out of conversations between the CWA and Game Workers Unite, a grass-roots organization that sprang up in 2018 to push for wall-to-wall unionization of the $43-billion video game industry, alongside conversations with organizers across the larger tech industry.
“We’ve been watching the amazing organizing of workers across the industry,” said Tom Smith, CWA’s lead organizer. “And workers themselves reached out to us while doing that amazing self-organizing, and said, ‘Can we do this in partnership with the CWA?’” The dedicated staff and national ambition set the CODE project apart from other efforts to organize tech workers, such as the United Steelworkers-backed Pittsburgh Assn. of Tech Professionals, which successfully“In my experience self-organizing in the game industry, people are very bottlenecked by the lack of resources and lack of legal know-how and a lack of funding — it’s very tough,” Kinema said.
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