… "We appreciate that Microsoft has taken a neutral approach and agreed not to interfere in any way with worker's rights to organize unions," the labor union said. The workers of Double Fine are following in the footsteps of other Microsoft-owned developer groups that have unionized in the past. …
… "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 . …
… Related Magic: The Gathering Arena developers seek to unionize at Wizards of the Coast More than 100 developers behind Arena are pushing for protections around layoffs, remote work, and AI “We have received the filing and are reviewing it carefully,” Hasbro said in a statement provided after the un… …
… The correspondence describes union membership as joining forces with a "third party" and suggests that voting to unionize could result in members ending up with "less than you have now." Related: Subnautica 2 hits four million sales It also states that by rejecting union representation, Wizards of … …
… If you take Rockstar at its word, it was just a coincidence that all the workers who were let go also happened to be members of a union organizing Discord channel. …
Sign in to your Polygon.com account The developers behind Magic: The Gathering Arena are officially seeking to unionize. This marks the first known labor organizing effort within Wizards of the Coast, the publisher behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons , which is a subsidiary of Hasbro. …
… The union includes workers from Rockstar Games offices in Leeds, London, Edinburgh, Dundee, and Lincoln, the Rockstar Games Workers Union said in a YouTube video published on Thursday . Workers at Rockstar Games North had been organizing for months ahead of Thursday's announcement. …
… WOTC bosses have so far replied only to press enquiries, the union workers claim, but they're confident nonetheless that recognition is "inevitable". The developers announced that they had voted to unionise last week, joining the umbrella union Communications Workers of America. …
… Aftermath spotted that Double Fine had filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7. The union will include all 42 of the studio's full-time and part-time employees and is being organized with the help of Communications Workers of America. …
