IWGB Game Workers Northern Ireland

Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals! Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.

Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Workers in Portland formed a branch of Game Workers Unite and organised a physical meet up.

#OtD 6 Nov 2019 Launch of Game Workers Unite Portland https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2019-11-launch-game-workers-unite-portland

Thank you to everyone who braved the stormy weather to attend our Halloween social on Thursday!

There were lots of wonderful costumes on display and plenty of goolish fun to be had.

We raised money for a good cause while looking absolutely fabulous 💅

Hope to see you again next time 🎃 👻 ❤

IWGB Halloween Social 🎃 · Luma IWGB Game Workers Northern Ireland presents an evening of spooky Hallowe'en camaraderie! 🎃🎃🎃🎃 This event is open to everyone, whether you're in the union…

For the 2nd year running, IWGB Game Workers NI are hosting a Halloween Social on Oct 30th in Pug Uglys!

Open to folk in an outside the union with all money raised going towards a local charity 🎃

For more information and to get your ticket follow the link below

luma.com/d5ieq59h

Around 100 workers at Avalanche Studios Group have joined Unionen. The studio develops the Just Cause series and has around 500 employees. Workers have raised issues over benefits and proposed moving to a four-day week. The unionisation follows a public dispute between workers and management, in which a public apology was later issued by the company.

#OtD 6 Oct 2023 Workers Unionise at Avalanche Studios Group https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2023-10-workers-unionise-avalanche-studios-group

IWGB Halloween Social 🎃 · Luma IWGB Game Workers Northern Ireland presents an evening of spooky Hallowe'en camaraderie! 🎃🎃🎃🎃 This event is open to everyone, whether you're in the union…

For the 2nd year running, IWGB Game Workers NI are hosting a Halloween Social on Oct 30th in Pug Uglys!

Open to folk in an outside the union with all money raised going towards a local charity 🎃

For more information and to get your ticket follow the link below

luma.com/d5ieq59h

Watch this space 👀 🎃 👻

Tabletop Freelancer Rates Survey [PLEASE DO NOT FILL IN THIS SURVEY IF YOU DO NOT LIVE / WORK IN THE UK] This is a form put together by freelance tabletop workers in the IWGB to better understand the rate of freelance pay provided ...

The tabletop freelancer survey closes on Monday, if you want to make sure IWGB has the info to fight for fair freelancer wages share it and fill it in now!

forms.gle/efLP5CLxskse...

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌

Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social

Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

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The IWGB launched a campaign to defend Austin Kelmore, a programmer at Ustwo Games. Kelmore is part of the recently launched game worker branch of the IWGB. The union maintains that he was fired for union organising, threatening to campaign over his sacking. This is the first public case of union victimisation in UK games industry.

#OtD 3 Oct 2019 The IWGB Union Game Workers branch launches campaign to defend a victimised member at ustwo games. https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2019-10-iwgb-launches-campaign-for-member-at-ustwo-games

On July 26th at 1pm we'll be hosting our Guildford social - join us in Stoke Park for a picnic with board and outdoor games! You can sign up to the event and find more details here: lu.ma/zyfykf82

Non-members are welcome, as are folks from outside Guildford!

A bar chart titled Number of workers striking by year. The Screen Actors Guild was formed in 1933 amid lots of strikes before it and even more after it formed. Game Workers Started Organizing in 2017 where previously there were relatively few strikes for decades prior.

A graph of Union Membership in the United States from 1960-2020. It goes from 30% in 1960 to 10% in 2020.

Bar chart of Percent of Union Election Campaigns with an Illegal Firing. It's 5% in 1951 to 26% in 2007.

A bar chart with the title Is Ronald Regan to Blame? No has zero. Yes has 100.

Someone asked me why game workers haven't unionized if our conditions are so bad. These charts are why.

We have collectively lost the knowledge, skill, and willingness to organize and strike. We have to rebuild those, and that takes time.

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We're pleased to reveal the lineup poster for Games Transformed 2025!

We’ll be joined by Meg Jayanth, Chris Bratt, Gareth Damian Martin, Clapton CFC, Innuendo Studios & many more!

Join us on Saturday 12 July for Games Transformed 2025.

TICKETS: www.tickettailor.com/events/games...

A collage of photos of members from the IWGB Game Workers AGM 2025

Last week at our AGM members from across the UK elected our new committee and passed several motions that will shape our union. We were also delighted to host a guest speaker from @stjv.fr! Thanks to everyone for coming, your engagement strengthens our collective voice.

This was always the inevitable endpoint: Workers bear the brunt of the executives' failures

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MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly started mass layoff proceedings | VGC More than 100 staff could be affected, it’s been suggested…

MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly started mass layoff proceedings, with 100 or more staff potentially affected.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/mindsey...

IWGB Game Workers @ Develop Brighton poster

Attending @developconference.com in July? Make sure you drop by our stall at Develop! We will be there for the whole event (8th-10th July) at booth B40, near the Indie Showcase.

Annual General Meeting - Belfast · Luma Let's all come together and celebrate what we've done this past year, listen to guest speakers, elect new officers for the coming year, and vote on motions…

Register for the in-person Belfast event here: lu.ma/13g967r4 (5/6)

Come join the Belfast crew next week! :D

If you care about video game workers and want to follow all the game worker unions across the world, we've created a starter pack with all the ones on BlueSky.

If we've missed one, let us know!

go.bsky.app/PNcLPFU

Game Worker Solidarity Preserving and analysing the history of game worker solidarity

If you didn't know, the unionization effort in the games industry is very much an international effort.

Over at @gameworkersolidarity.com, we track everything we can find, and I'm sure we're missing a lot, too! www.gameworkersolidarity.com

We want to share our sympathies with the transgender community in response to today's supreme court ruling.

Trans people are an integral part of the game development community and we remain committed to ensuring that they receive the support they deserve.

TONIGHT! Come on down and join us @7pm in UU

One week until RESET/REFORM! Sign up today :D

Sign up today! Tickets are free :D!

RESET/REFORM · Luma Reset/Reform - Industry Talks & Roundtable Discussions! The last few years in the global games industry have been turbulent and our local industry has also…

The last few years in the global games industry have been turbulent and our local industry has also felt these effects.

Join moderators from NIGD and union organisers from the IWGB on Tuesday 8th April to hear and discuss what we can do to improve our industry for the future.

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Okay I am gonna make a more concerted effort to post on here now lol