CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal

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.” 💪

Macarons colorés avec des messages pro-syndicats dans le style de jeux vidéo classiques, des messages de solidarité avec la Palestine, et le logo de GWU Montréal aux couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel et de la fierté trans

Retrouvez aussi des membres du CTIJ-GWU Montréal dans l'arcade samedi et dimanche, pour jaser et vous procurer nos zines et nos pins! 😎

On recommande également de participer à l'atelier "Queer Organizing 101" par @videogameworkers.bsky.social juste après, à 16h. C'est l'occasion idéale de mettre en pratique ce dont on aura parlé!

La conférence QGCon arrive! Venez voir notre présentation (en anglais) GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU samedi 26 à 14h dans l'auditorium pour apprendre pourquoi les travailleureuses queer doivent se lancer dans l'aventure syndicale dès maintenant! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

Colorful buttons with pro-union messages styled after classic games, palestine solidarity graphics, and the GWU Montreal logo in rainbow and trans pride colors

Find our members both Saturday and Sunday in arcade section as well, where you'll be able to chat with us and grab our very cool zines & pins 😎

We highly recommend attending the Queer Organizing 101 workshop by @videogameworkers.bsky.social that same afternoon at 4pm, an excellent hands-on followup to the topics we'll be discussing!

QGCon is coming in just over a week! Come to our talk GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU on Saturday 26th at 2pm in the auditorium to learn about why you (gay) should unionize, now! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry.

Hail to you, union champions 💪

GWU Montréal logo on the rainbow-coloured QGCon graphic, with label "GWU Montréal @ QGCon 2025"

Attending the 2025 Queerness and Games Conference? Join GWU Montréal members September 26-28 at our booth in the arcade and come along for our talk:
GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU 🫵
www.qgcon.org/2025/

Logo du CTIJ GWU Montréal sur graphique arc-en-ciel de la Queerness and Games Conference, avec le label "GWU Montréal @ QGCon 2025"

Tu participes à la conférence Queerness and Games? Retrouve les membres du CTIJ-GWU Montréal les 26-28 Septembre à l'arcade et viens assister à notre présentation (en anglais):
GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU 🫵
www.qgcon.org/2025/

Help create the future of the games industry! On 8/20, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here: uvw-cwa.org/townhall-reg...

NEW: 180 Blizzard workers just unionized today.

Open letter from the Arkan Studios union section to Microsoft’s and its subsidiaries’ management – STJV Introduction This letter is addressed to our direction at Arkane Studios, as well as the entities above, being the heads of Zenimax, Microsoft Gaming and the ov

🇵🇸 Arkane Studios’ STJV section joins @bdsmovement.bsky.social and No Azure for Apartheid in asking Microsoft to terminate all contrats with the Israeli Occupation Forces that facilitate their genocidal policies.

www.stjv.fr/en/2025/...

3 years later... they won Call of Duty Workers Win 3-Year Battle For Microsoft Union Contract, Worker Goes On The Record For The First Time

NEW: Call of Duty workers just voted to ratify their first union contract with Microsoft, marking the end of nearly 3 years of negotiations. The two bargaining members speak to me about everything that went into it, and where they go from here. shannonliao.substack.com/p/3-years-la...

An update: management has chosen not to recognize our Product, Engineering, and Humble Bundle colleagues as part of IGNCG, instead insisting on a time-consuming NLRB hearing, which took place last week.

Help us spread the word: we will not be divided. We are IGN, and we will always stand together.

ZeniMax Union Responds to Microsoft Canceling Unannounced MMO: 'A Future Has Been Stolen From Us' - IGN Following a wave of mass layoffs that impacted an estimated 9,100 employees at Microsoft, many of whom were in its Xbox gaming division, the union of employees at Xbox subsidiary ZeniMax have responde...

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www.ign.com/articles/zen...

Xbox laid off 9000 people last week, including DevQA from Bethesda Games Studios. Many more were cut from Zenimax QA proper.

At Zenimax Online Studios many are now without a project & in "decisional bargaining" to see what happens next.

We’re here to share our grief & support for our friends 🤍

🇬🇧 Don’t Nod Montréal: we have been informed of the lay-offs of 9 colleagues and the "temporary suspension" of 7 others in order to "reduce costs across the group". We support the colleagues affected. The STJV strongly condemns Oskar Guilbert’s catastrophic management of the company.

Don’t Nod Montréal : nous apprenons le licenciement de 9 collègues et la "suspension temporaire" de 7 emplois dans un but de "réduction des coûts à l’échelle du groupe". Soutien aux collègues affecté·es. Le STJV condamne fermement la gestion catastrophique de l’entreprise par Oskar Guilbert.

Change for Games: WE are the games industry! As thousands convene for the Games for Change conference in NYC, UVW-CWA invites all workers in the the videogame industry to talk about the change we need today as workers, and what we win when we or...

FRIDAY, JUNE 27th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT
UVW-CWA invites all workers in the the videogame industry to talk about the change we need today!

Join us to celebrate labor victories and chart the future of our movement! RSVP below, and reply with what YOU'D like to see on the GAME WORKERS' BILL OF RIGHTS!

If you're seeing the news from Québec and feeling FOMO, don't hesitate to get in touch with GWU Montréal at gwumtl.com, and our québec-wide campaign with CSN at sesyndiquer.org/jeux-video/e... The more the merrier!

This makes them the first of Ubisoft's many studios in North America to publicly move towards unionization (and we're sure more will follow!), joining workers from studios in France and Spain.

Game workers at Ubisoft Halifax file to unionize with CWA Canada HALIFAX (June 18, 2025) – Workers at video game company Ubisoft in Halifax have filed to unionize with media union CWA Canada. The union filed with the Nova Scotia Labour Board today after a m…

Earlier this week, the workers of Ubisoft Halifax filed to unionize! Read their letter in which they explain why now is the time to get together as coworkers, and give them all your support for the upcoming vote at the Nova Scotia labour board! cwacanada.ca/2025/06/18/g...

Si vous lisez ces nouvelles du Québec et que ça vous donne envie de participer, contactez le CTIJ-GWU Montréal gwumtl.com, et notre campagne nationale en collaboration avec la CSN sesyndiquer.org/jeux-video ✊ L'union fait la force!

C'est le premier studio d'Ubisoft en Amérique du Nord qui se lance publiquement dans l'aventure syndicale (mais certainement pas le dernier!), dans le sillage de leurs collègues des studios Français et Espagnol!

Game workers at Ubisoft Halifax file to unionize with CWA Canada HALIFAX (June 18, 2025) – Workers at video game company Ubisoft in Halifax have filed to unionize with media union CWA Canada. The union filed with the Nova Scotia Labour Board today after a m…

Cette semaine, les travailleu·se·rs d'Ubisoft à Halifax ont déposé leur application pour se syndiquer! Lisez leurs motivations pour s'organiser entre collègues, et apportez-leur votre soutien pour le vote à venir au tribunal du travail de Nouvelle Écosse! cwacanada.ca/2025/06/18/g...

'Creativity flourishes when workers feel secure:' Ubisoft Halifax workers file to unionize 'It is up to us, the workers, to organize and demand a say in our labor, art and future.'

'Creativity flourishes when workers feel secure:' Ubisoft Halifax workers file to unionize

"With no end in sight to the industry-wide turbulence that sees studios shutter on releasing games fans love, it is up to us, the workers, to organize and demand a say in our labour, art and future."

See you tonight! À ce soir!

See you tonight! À ce soir!

Ubisoft Workers Canada CWA Canada Local 30111

From Canada to Spain, Italy to France, Ubisoft workers around the world are standing up for equity and dignity.

Today, we join them.

ubisoftworkerscanada.com

Ubisoft Halifax has filed to unionize with @cwacanada1.bsky.social

#UnionStrong #WeAreCWA #STJV