@codecwa.bsky.social
We are the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees in the tech π©βπ», games πΉοΈ, and digital industries π±οΈ with CWA. https://code-cwa.org/organize Building power as tech workers! βπΏβπΎβπ½βπ»
Every day there are new reports of ICE detaining and targeting our communities. Video game devs and the workers who keep our workplaces running are not safe from this.
Thatβs why weβve launched WE DON'T PLAY WITH ICE, a campaign demanding companies commit to becoming 4th Amendment Workplaces.
The enclosure of Yerba Buena Gardens didnβt stop us from leading a march to discuss our Game Workersβ Bill of Rights earlier this week β our way to fight for standardization across video game studios and employers that empower workers instead of breaking them down.
when we fight we win
Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.
Unions band together to launch new game industry conference 'by workers, for workers'
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov π
Come join us for a panel with @videogameworkers.bsky.social in Rm 2011 to get updates on how we've been organizing the tech and video game industries!
Video games make companies billions in profit yet we are still getting laid off at alarming rates. If this is a reality you know all too well and want to fight against, come find us at GDC!!
Come stop by our booth to get buttons, ribbons, zines, and anti-spiking drink-cover stickers! You can also talk to an organizer about what unionizing might be able to do for you and our industry!
we out here
'If we love this work, we have to protect it:' Heart Machine workers secure voluntary union recognition
At this yearβs DICE Awards, Ghost of YΕtei VA @erikaishii.bsky.social used their platform to demand that video game workers are treated fairly and with respect.
If you want to be part of our fight to build a better industry, reach out and get connected with an organizer.
Congratulations, Erika! πͺ
If you're lamenting the loss of critical video investigative journalism bc the biggest sites don't tend to keep around the folks with those skills, have i got done good news for you.
After learning the Pentagon has demanded that Anthropic abandon all AI safety guardrails in their contract with the U.S. military β and that Anthropic has refused to capitulate to these demands β Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...
Tell Hearst: Keep Texas News written by Texans!
The company is already trying to bust our unions and we need your help to keep these jobs in Texas!
Sign the petition to support local journalism: bit.ly/TellHearst
Today's rally at The Post building was a powerful show of solidarity from fellow unions, community members, longtime Post readers, past and current Post journalists, international press, city council members, and everyone else who knows that we must #SaveThePost
Thank you for your solidarity. β
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post.
Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost.
The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism.
Blizzard QA workers' newly ratified union contract locks in pay increases, better benefits
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Quality assurance testers at Blizzard Albany and Austin offices have reached a groundbreaking contract at Microsoft, marking the third union contract across the company's gaming studios.
Solidarity!
Over 30,000 Amazon workers have been laid off since October. Executives get to call their decisions "red tape" and workers pay the price.
If you're at Amazon and furious by this, you're not alone. Organizing is how we can secure real protections before the next round hits. code-cwa.org/organize
AWU STATEMENT βοΈ
In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...
"An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us."
We stand with our @postguild.bsky.social siblings. Democracy depends on journalism -- now more than ever.
i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
Join us tomorrow for an important discussion on tech worker organizing feat Alphabet Workers Union member Tahlia Kirk!
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"After weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of terror by ICE agents," hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of a historic general strike.
