#GameDevUnion

Baessando ☭🇧🇷🇵🇸🇺🇳pBaesse@bolha.one
2025-06-01

"Nós, da Game Workers Unite Ireland, nos solidarizamos com os Trabalhadores da Animação da Irlanda e com a coalizão sindical internacional que existe para nos organizarmos contra a ameaça da IA na indústria da animação, e apoiamos seu apelo à ação.

Junte-se a eles na quinta-feira, 12 de junho, às 14:00, no Pâquier em Annecy!!"

#Animation #AnimationUnion #Annecy #annecy2025 #GameDev #GameDevUnion

@denmanrooke social.coop/@denmanrooke/11460

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2025-05-31

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.

Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!

#Animation #AnimationUnion #Annecy #annecy2025 #GameDev #GameDevUnion

ANIMATION INDUSTRY IN DANGER : WORLD UNIONS DECLARE EMERGENCY IN THE FACE OF GENERATIVE Al USE. Graphic with the text Let's Stop AI Generated Art.ENGLISH VERSION

This statement was composed by a collective of international Animation Unions, federations, and organisations calling for action in regards to the usage of generative Artificial Intelligence and its destructive impact, not only on the global animation industry and the craft itself, but also on everyone who is employed by it, our culture and our planet. The animation industry is suffering, after the explosion of the streaming bubble and the pandemic. The workers are feeling the repercussions : mass layoffs, increased use of outsourcing, closure of studios, decreasing budgets etc. Generative Al is seen by some as an answer to this crisis : a near magical tool that can produce words, images and sounds from a simple and vague description. But GenAl is neither a tool, nor effective, nor cheap. It is a copying machine that is flawed, destructive and expensive to run, threatening creative innovation and jobs in multiple industries. GenAl do NOT support artists, it destroys them. The absence of humans is a feature, not a bug, of GenAl. It promises only the loss of employment and livelihood for millions of people worldwide.This same technology is being used to foster dissent, confusion and distrust among the public. This unchecked growth and unjustified techno-optimism comes with incredible environmental consequences, including expanding demand for computing power, larger carbon footprints, shifts in patterns of electricity and water demands and an accelerated depletion of natural resources. As such, there is a need for protection frameworks around GenAl, centered around transparency, compensation, control on the use of the work of the creator, and informed consent.

We call upon the regulators, lawmakers and governments to fight for culture and art and the value it provides, to draft and implement legislation that protects those workers and those rights.

We call upon producers, showrunners, studioheads, boradcasters and production staff to protect our creative culture and to prioritize both the workers and our work.

We call upon all creative workers worldwide to unite, speak up against the implementation of Al and unionise.We invite all workers, students and allies to join us in Annecy festival, to discuss concerns and defense against GenAl, and to hear unions representatives read the statement on Thursday, June 12th, at 2 PM, on the Paquier (and then a map graphic)
Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2025-02-13

Solidarity with STJV game workers on an industry wide general strike in France today.

1: protecting jobs and making decision-makers accountable

2: transparency about company finances and profit sharing

3: work reorganisation and the reduction of work hours

#GameDev #GameDevUnion #JoinAUnion

Denman holding a fist up in solidarity wearing a Game Workers Unite Ireland shirt. Text reads "Solidarity with STJV"
Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2025-01-13

Join the global movement. ✊
#GameDevUnion #JoinAUnion

jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game

If you work in games in Ireland, join me in Game Workers Unite Ireland 👉 fsunion.org/join/GWUIreland

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-11-27

Union Swag for the game worker or supporter in your life! 🎮✊

12 hours to go on this shirt campaign before they go to print.

So get yours now to have in time for the holidays and show your support for our Irish game Union, Game Workers Unite Ireland.

everpress.com/game-workers-uni

#GameDevUnion #GameDev #IrishGameDev #JoinAUnion #UnionSwag

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-11-20

🚨 UNION SWAG alert!!! 🚨

Support the Game Workers of Ireland with this shirt by sporting their Union logo of Game Workers Unite Ireland.

A better game industry is possible, but we need to organise!

Support our Union and organising efforts by picking up a GWUI shirt today!

everpress.com/game-workers-uni

#GameDev #GameDevUnion #UnionSwag #JoinAUnion

Game Workers Unite Ireland logo on a black tshirt
Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-10-25

Hey Irish Game Workers, It’s important we push for better pay and conditions for those who work in games. As we’ve seen the last few years with multiple large scale layoffs, our employment isn’t guaranteed even when we do good work.

Fill out the confidential survey below 👇

social.coop/@denmanrooke/11336

#GameDev #IrishGameDev #GameDevUnion #JoinAUnion

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-10-24

Do you work in games in Ireland? Then please fill out this survey to help us build a sustainable industry!

It’s about time we had better negotiating power at the table for building lasting careers and a sustainable industry.

Responses are confidential.

fsunionsurvey.typeform.com/GWU

#GameDev #IrishGameDev #GameDevUnion #JoinAUnion

Poster graphic with pixel art and the following text: “Game Workers Unite Ireland (GWUI) Survey! Tell us what it is like for you as a game worker in Ireland. Your details and input are completely confidential. www.gwuireland.org”
Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-07-24

We love to see it. ✊

Union game studios are the future of a sustainable industry.

If you work in games in Ireland, join us Game Workers Unite Ireland and let's get some union studios here.! gamedeveloper.com/production/o

#JoinAUnion #UnionStrong #GameDev #GameDevUnion

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-07-20

Amazing to see. Well done Bethesda game workers!

If you work in games in Ireland, join us in Game Workers Unite Ireland (gwuireland.org) to help build union-strong studios and a sustainable industry here.

pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/be

#unionstrong #joinaunion #gamedev #GameDevUnion #ireland

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-05-07

Yeah... time to unionise the game industry folks.

Don't let the suits & shareholders destroy our careers & creativity.

#JoinAUnion #GameDevUnion #GameDev

Article from today 7 May 2024 with title 'Microsoft closes Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda'Article from 25 April 2024 (10 days ago) with the title 'Microsoft beats expectations as quarterly profits rise 20% to nearly $22B'
Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-05-07

This is the first year I've had multiple game dev friends mentioning to me that they're either considering just leaving game dev or already have. Which makes me really sad.

They're talented developers. But this industry is ruthless.

Time to unionise. Locally & globally.

#JoinAUnion #GameDevUnion #GameDev

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-02-16

Amazing to see. We need more of this!
'Embracer-owned studio Flying Wild Hog has unionized'
gamedeveloper.com/business/emb
#GameDev #GameDevUnion #JoinAUnion

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2024-02-16

Embracer CEO says layoffs are "something that everyone needs to get through"

Except the CEO of course. They aren't "everyone". But they get paid the most.

Join or form a Union folks and fight back for you and your coworkers careers. Stop letting CEOs and shareholders extract the wealth you build. You, the workers, are the ones that build any real value.

gamesindustry.biz/embracer-ceo

mastodon.social/@GIbiz/1119408
#GameDev #JoinAUnion #GameDevUnion

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2023-11-16

The game industry layoffs just keep coming doesn't it.

Join a union folks, before it's too late.

These companies are raking in profits. Don't let them get away with trading your livelihood for profit.

gamedeveloper.com/business/emb

#JoinAUnion #GameDevUnion #GameDev

2023-10-03

@squibbons
Capitalism turned to maximum with everything being owned by a handful of businesses.

Time to form small indie teams and cut AAA out of the equation. Big budget games and burning people out making them is not sustainable.

Nothing will change as long as people participate in their rigged system.

Do Game Developers even have a union? #gamedevstrike #gamedevunion

Denman 🔜 Games Transformeddenmanrooke@social.coop
2023-08-30

Nice to see 80 Level doing a survey on Work Culture in #gamedev, but a little disappointed there were no references to trade unions or similar even from a neutral standpoint.

Unions protect workers from burnout, harassment, overwork, low pay, lack of benefits, and can help highlight career progression & pay transparency. The fact our industry is so far behind others in this regard goes hand in hand with why we have so many issues in our industry.

#JoinAUnion #GameDevUnion

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