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Hasbro, Inc. is an American toy and board game company that also produces and publishes games and entertainment brands.
… "Unions are the missing counterweight to protect our craft." The push to unionize was triggered back in 2023 following mass Hasbro layoffs that affected nearly 2,000 workers, software engineers told Kotaku . …
… Unions are the missing counterweight to protect our craft.” Hasbro has carried out multiple rounds of layoffs in recent years, including cuts to roughly 1,100 jobs in December 2023 and 800 more earlier that year. More recently, in June 2025, Hasbro also laid off an additional 150 employees . …
… "We call on Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to voluntarily recognize our union and to publicly commit to remaining neutral during our unionization efforts—not just toward the MTG Arena team, but to all Hasbro employees and unionization efforts, present and future," continues the letter. …
… Given that the letter has only just gone live, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have yet to respond to the request for voluntary recognition. …
… Hasbro confirmed they'd nixed a deal for them to publish that game back in May. Beyond that, GI Joe game makers Atomic Arcade were shuttered by Hasbro earlier this year , though Hasbro said at the time that game hadn't been cancelled as a result. …
Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have missed the deadline to voluntarily recognise a union formed by Magic: The Gathering Arena developers . …
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks recently discussed the company’s nearly $1 billion investment in its video game business over the past decade. …
… The most important concerns were AI, unpaid forced overtime, and layoffs. The union set a deadline of Friday, May 1, for Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to respond and voluntarily recognize the union rather than going through official proceedings. …
… In an interview with Polygon earlier this month , Vaine told the site that "the thing that really kicked off the union conversations were the 2023 layoffs, where Hasbro laid off about a thousand people. Everybody I talked to couldn’t understand why Arena was hit by those layoffs. …