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As Rockstar accuse fired staff of leaking secrets, unions launch street protests against publisher Take-Two - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-rockstar-accuse-fired-staff-of-leaking-secrets-unions-launch-street-protests-against-publisher-take-two #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #Shooter:ThirdPerson #Take-TwoInteractive #GrandTheftAutoVI #ActionAdventure #IWGBGameWorkers #RockstarGames #XboxSeriesX/S #unionisation #SinglePlayer #Thirdperson #Firstperson #Fullproduct #OpenWorld

"It is also the only factory NEXT has chosen to close, despite operating two other non-unionised factories nearby. The implications are clear: this is union-busting dressed up as business strategy."

#LabourStart #unionize #unionisation #solidarity #TradeUnions @LOiO #SriLanka #NEXTplc

https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/next-shuts-down-its-only-unionised-factory-in-sri-lanka-after-posting-ps1-08-billion-profit-forecast

There has been a LOT of human job losses due to #AI in the #GameDevelopment industry. Good to see folks taking a stand!

Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what #ActivisionBlizzard's newly unionised employees want from #Microsoft

A big development.

By Connor Makar, Published on Aug. 22, 2025

Excerpt: "[Scott Alsworth from the #UK's #IWGB Union] credits the increase in #unionisation efforts to several factors: #TechnologicalDisplacement (especially poignant with the push for #AI), a greater number of #WorkingClass people joining the video game industry who bring a greater awareness of unionisation, and a response to the state of the industry as a whole."

#Unionise #Unionize #GameDevelopment #AISucks #JobDisplacement #HumanJobs #VideoGames #VideoGamingNews

“A job in industry is also now harder to attain. Modern #factories are high-tech, run by #engineers and #technicians. In the early 1980s #BlueCollar assemblers, machine operators and repair workers made up more than half of the #manufacturing workforce.

Today they account for less than a third. #Whitecollar professionals outnumber blue-collar factory-floor workers by a wide margin. Even once obtained, a #FactoryJob is far less likely to be unionised than in previous decades, with membership having fallen from one in four workers in the 1980s to less than one in ten today.

In order to find the modern equivalent of such jobs, we looked for #employment with the same traits. What offers decent #pay, #unionisation, requires no #degree and can soak up the male workforce?

The result: mechanics, repair technicians, security workers and the skilled trades.”

<https://archive.md/L1J7W> (paywall) / <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/10/factory-work-is-overrated-here-are-the-jobs-of-the-future>

Union workers at Fallout and Elder Scrolls company ready to strike against Microsoft after two years of haggling - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/union-workers-at-fallout-and-elder-scrolls-company-ready-to-strike-against-microsoft-after-two-years-of-haggling #unionisation #ZeniMaxMedia #unionization #Microsoft

#Japan's plight of low money wages & low #inflation is down to #unionisation levels next to zero and cultural aspects of total deference to the employer, no matter the level of #unemployment.

#economics #PostKeynesianism

Money wages are set with regard both to internal labour efficiency (Stiglitz's "efficiency wages") and/or levels of #unionisation.

#Employment is determined ex ante by the firm's #expectations on demand for for its produce; then, money wages are negotiated for ex post.

Thus, there's neither an empirically consistent nor a theoretical link between #unemployment & #inflation, hence no #NAIRU (cf James Galbraith).

#Amazon #Coventry: employees voting on #unionization after #wildcat and #SitDownStrikes

https://labornotes.org/2024/07/will-immigrant-workers-britain-win-europes-first-amazon-union

#UK #unionisation #union #unions #strike #strikes #WildCatStrikes #BHX4 #UnionBusting #GMB #ADAPT #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

How do we stop the next round of games industry mass layoffs? - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-do-we-stop-the-next-round-of-games-industry-mass-layoffs?utm_source=feed&utm;_medium=rss&utm;_campaign=feed #unionisation #Layoffs

"In Seattle, Amazon's tech workers walked out in sympathy with Amazon's warehouse workers, because they're all workers.

The only reason the tech workers aren't monitored by AI that notifies their managers if they visit the toilet during working hours is their rapidly dwindling bargaining power. The way things are going, Amazon programmers are going to be pissing in bottles next to their workstations."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

#WorkersPower #unionisation

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-12-11-microsoft-and-labour-unions-form-historic-alliance-on-ai/

#Microsoft agrees to neutrality on #unionisation, provide training on #AI, discuss threats to employee livelihoods

#unionization #union #unions #UnionStrong #AFLCIO #unionize #unionise

@nap @Daojoan And if you are a tech worker in the UK and are interested in organising but don't know where to start, check out https://www.techworkers.network/

#Unionisation

CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs - and want everybody in the industry to join - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cd-projekt-staff-form-union-after-layoffs-and-want-everybody-in-the-industry-to-join #Cyberpunk2077:PhantomLiberty #BandaiNamcoEntertainment #MultiplayerCompetitive #TheWitcher3:WildHunt #WarnerBros.Games #ActionAdventure #XboxSeriesX/S #Cyberpunk2077 #SinglePlayer #CDProjektRED #unionisation #unionization #TheWitcher4 #Thirdperson #Firstperson #CDProjekt #XboxOne #Shooter

General Motors UAW Strike: UAW President Shawn Fain on Friday expanded the first-ever simultaneous strike against the Detroit Three to a GM ...

UAW President Shawn Fain on Friday expanded the first-ever simultaneous strike against the Detroit Three to a GM Lansing plant and Ford Motor Chicago assembly plant, but Stellantis was spared after last-minute concessions by the Chrysler parent.#Industry #GeneralMotorsUAWStrike #Ford #UAWStrike #UnitedAutoWorkersStrikeGM #GMPlantStrikeAutoWorkers #LabourStrike #Unionisation
GM furloughs another 160 workers due to UAW strike

@econads

Certainly: 'the perfect not being the enemy of the good' was one of those phrases i used a lot when I was teaching... so we agree there;

But I also agree that these are not unreasonable demands and in a world of 'good work' even those at the lowest pay grades should be able to seek similar accommodations to their personal needs... so we agree here, as well; certainly the T&Cs may percolate down... but in my view only re-expansion of #unionisation will achieve that

One thing that has often confused me about American TV series is how unionisation is portrayed. The characters often do it in secret, very hush hush, like it is something shameful or naughty.

Is there some legal or cultural difference that leads to that? Here many employees are part of a #union, which are industry-specific and cross-company. I admit, having been in the tech space, it's not a topic I'm super familiar with, but as an employer I wouldn't consider #unionisation as something awful.

I hope every financially capable Australian tech worker either tooting, or favouriting posts about the need for #unionisation is or has joined their union and is mobilising their coworkers. #tech #union #unions

This post from @SuneAuken on #Unionisation in #universities in #Denmark is just perfect and goes out to all my colleagues in the UK as well as to all the PhD students + Postdoc #precariat everywhere who are not treated as valued employees.

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https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/109682909849392053

#UCU #UKstrikes #UCU23 #UCUStrikes