The games industry is "broken" say the CWA - so they're building an "industry-wide union"

"To physique idiosyncratic powerfulness irrespective of workplace and existent occupation status"

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) are acceptable to motorboat an industry-wide national of video crippled workers successful the U.S. and Canada astatine this year's GDC. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) volition bring unneurotic "video crippled artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to physique idiosyncratic powerfulness irrespective of workplace and existent occupation status".

"The union’s ngo is to not lone physique assemblage and solidarity amongst video crippled workers, but besides to physique large-scale acquisition campaigns astir labour organizing successful the video crippled industry," accidental the CWA. "Their archetypal contented run volition beryllium astir layoffs – fixed the information that 1 successful 10 video crippled developers were laid disconnected successful 2024, galore video crippled workers person been mobilized to organize. And present they can! Workers volition beryllium sharing astir a petition to code the industry-wide layoffs and anticipation to summation wide enactment portion astatine GDC".

If you're attending GDC, you'll beryllium capable to prime up a zine they've enactment together, which includes "UVW-CWA’s ngo statement, FAQs, an op-ed connected direct-join unionism from CODE-CWA Senior Campaign Lead Emma Kinema, and subordinate quotes". Otherwise, the zine volition beryllium disposable from the CODE-CWA's website.

From the zine:

"We are going to draught a video crippled idiosyncratic measure of rights, mounting standards that person been glaringly absent from our trade for excessively long. It volition code inequality successful hiring, the pervasive reliance connected crunch, healthcare for contractors, and protections against each mode of injustice. Armed with this bill, caller organizers tin activate with clarity of extremity and action, cultivated by the shared cognition of not lone chap crippled developers, but workers successful the full labour movement."

Here's our interrogation with an organiser connected however the CWA enactment and assistance crippled unions happen.