CODE-CWA

Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!

Interested in making it a reality? Since we're union with a direct-to-join model... you can!

Read up on how to join here:
uvw-cwa.org/membership

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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🚨 Big @cwaunion.bsky.social news for your Monday 🚨

Congrats to our @pghguild.com union siblings!

🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!

The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

Tell Conde Nast execs Chief People Officer Stan Duncan, CEO Roger Lynch, Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour and @newyorker.com Editor David Remnick to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting. Sign the petition!
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Solidarity with Starbucks Workers!

A screenshot from the GDC Festival of Gaming (what) State of the Games Industry survey, asking: are you part of a union? Several answers are listed, including one naming us, UVW-CWA, directly.

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Incredibly proud of the bravery and hard work that made this happen - y'all are amazing 🙌✊

Desde CSVI nos hacemos eco y nos solidarizamos con les compañeres de IWGB que han sido despedidas de Rockstar Games en represión por su actividad sindical, incluyendo personas con visados y seguros médicos vinculados a su empleo, de los que depende su estabilidad vital. A pesar de que los ingresos de la empresa permitirían acabar con el hambre en todo el mundo durante un año entero, han priorizado desarticular toda organización de les trabajadores que pudiera luchar por derechos y mejores condiciones. CSVI apoyará toda acción impulsada por la IWGB. ¡Frente a su represión, organización de la clase trabajadora, sin importar país o frontera!

Desde CSVI queremos dar toda nuestra solidaridad y apoyo a les compañeres de @gameworkers.co.uk afectades por represión antisindical en Rockstar Games.

¡Basta ya de este régimen del miedo contra la clase trabajadora organizada! ¡Exigimos la readmisión de nuestras compañeras! ✊❤️‍🔥

These Video Games Want Only Some of Your Attention

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

If you're a member of Amazon's video game division and would like to talk (confidentially or otherwise) about the company's latest cuts and AI push, please feel free to reach out.

DMs open. Email in bio. Signal QR code pinned.

a dark red graphic with a photo of members of the Alphabet Workers Union wearing black Googlers For Job Security t-shirts, holding a Googlers For Job Security banner, and raising their fists. The Alphabet Workers Union logo is featured at the top and white text reads: “Tech Workers, Get Organized! Alphabet Workers Union Statement on Amazon’s Mass Layoffs Announcement.”

TLDR: tech workers, get organized!

The Alphabet Workers Union has issued a statement in response to Amazon’s announcement that it will lay off 14,000 corporate workers: “Now is the time for us to stand together collectively, so we have power and a real voice in our industry.”

Workers at Major D.C. Concert Venues Launch Unionization Effort There are more than 300 staff members aiming to unionize at the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre.

From The Anthem to the 9:30 Club, the workers who keep DC’s live music beating are unionizing—and that’s something to dance about.

Behind every sold-out show are people setting up, cleaning up, and keeping the crowd safe.

They deserve to be respected, protected and paid. https://seiu.co/3WSgX2a

Person wearing keffiya in front of podium and sign "Tech Workers Must Organize!" with Tech Workers Coalition logo underneath. Circuit breakers on giant screen, 18-19 October 2025 with TWC and Collective Action in Tech logos. A conference kickoff

Dozens of colorful posters and artwork of social movements, with smiling tech workers

Our annual Circuit Breakers conference is live!

300 tech workers spanning the US, Mexico, Philippines, India and Kenya working in different layers of the global value chain gather across 40-different worker-led sessions exchanging strategies and tactics!

Afterwards we will digitize sessions!

Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble Developers Form Union with Communications Workers of America A majority of video game developers behind Blizzard’s popular digital-card game Hearthstone and mobile-strategy game Warcraft Rumble have voted strongly in favor of wall-to-wall union representation w...

More exciting video game union news: Team 5 is joining CWA 💪

"We chose to organize in pursuit of a collective voice and a force of solidarity that the industry cannot ignore."

Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble developers unionize to combat 'instability and unfair conditions' 'The pressures we face are making it harder to create the high-quality work we care about.'

Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble developers unionize to combat 'instability and unfair conditions'

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Big week for unions at Blizzard as Hearthstone team also votes 'yes'
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Another group of Blizzard workers has unionized 400 employees of Blizzard Entertainment's Platform and Technology division are have unionized under Communications Workers of America.

Congrats to nearly 400 more workers at Blizzard Entertainment for voting to form a union with @codecwa.bsky.social!

With a stronger voice, they have the power to bargain for a contract that will set the standard for video game workers everywhere. #BetterInAUnion

EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets—not to strengthen the company."

EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny

United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout October 15, 2025 NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433. The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers. EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed. We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen? If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company. Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.

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Blizzard Entertainment Platform and Technology workers unionize under CWA 'We can have a voice in our working conditions to empower ourselves to do our best work at Blizzard.'

Blizzard Entertainment Platform and Technology workers unionize under CWA

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Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires
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Activision Blizzard’s Platform and Technology Workers Form Union with Communications Workers of America Today, nearly 400 video game workers within Blizzard’s Platform & Technology department have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social!

“We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

Solidarity with LAT journalists!

The future of white-collar work may be unionized Law firms, banks and tech companies are seeing an uptick in employees choosing to join unions.

🗣️The Future Of The Tech Industry Is Unionized!

“The way layoffs happened at Google, where it wasn’t clear what the reason for people getting laid off was, definitely created a sense of job insecurity & mistrust,” said AWU Prez Parul Koul @washingtonpost.com

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Since we last shared an update on bargaining, we’ve received additional information about management salaries at Rewire.

The TLDR: The pay discrepancy between management and union members is deeply unsettling.

"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

NEW: ICE is attacking journalists in Chicago, and the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social is fighting back.

"Journalism is not a crime," @jschleuss.com told @axios.com.

The 1st Amendment makes press freedom a cornerstone of our democracy, and we will fight to defend it.

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Listen to AFGE President Everett Kelley:

Federal workers aren’t pawns in political games—they inspect our food, care for veterans, conduct research that keeps workers safe and so much more. They make America run.

The Trump admin’s Project 2025/DOGE agenda hurts everyone.