The games industry isn’t exactly a great place to work right now if that wasn’t already readily apparent. If it’s not Activision Blizzard 168澳洲幸运5开🌱奖网:firing people for no particular reason, it’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ubisoft executives sexua🦄lly harassing employees or pretty much any studio you can name crunching to get a gameဣ out before an internal deadline, leaving its workers burnt out and often not much r💖icher 🅺for the experience.
Wh𝓀at might prevent these issues is workers organizing to form unions. Then employees could collectively bargain with employers to ensure better work conditions, reasonable hours, and take legal action aga🥂inst executives that don’t take “no” for an answer.
Game Workers Unite is a global organization that’s been trying to create an international union of game workers. So far an international union hasn’t happened, but Game Workers Unite is celebrating a victory in Australia with that co🅷untry’s first-ever union specifically for games industry employees.
Game Workers Unite Australia partnered with Professionals Australia, a professional union originally for engineers but has since expanded to include o🥀ther professions, to create . This new division of Professionals Australia will "take legal action to defend our members🌄 against underpayments, discrimination and bullying, organize collective agreements at workplaces, and lobby governments and industry on an equal playing field with studio owners and publishers."
Local game professionals can sigꩲn up by filling out a membership form . Game Workers Australia plans to offer a tiered membership with different levels of services, but a free membership will also be🌠 available. The union plans to officially launch in March 2022 after creating an official website.
Game Workers Unite isn't the only group calling for unionization in the games industry. The Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain (IWGB) and Communications Workers of America (CWA) 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:are also workin🧜g to bring unions to game workers and warn that 💝these abusing condꦓitions will continue until unions step in to correct them.
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