Start organising!
Want to talk about how you can get started in your workplace? Contact us! We're game workers and union organisers ourselves and we're happy to chat.
Join a game worker union
- IWGB Game Workers (UK)
- CODE-CWA (USA/Canada)
- Game Workers of Southern California (USA)
- Game Workers Unite Ireland (Ireland)
- STJV (France)
- Solidaires Informatique (France)
- GWU Montreal (Canada)
- Game Makers of Finland (Finland)
- Nexon Korea Union (Korea)
- Smilegate Union (Korea)
- Unionen (Sweden)
- Game Workers Australia (Australia)
Resources
We'll be posting more resources about this in future but for now, we recommend these links:
- What a Labour Union is and How it Works
- Union-busting playbook
- “Now You’re Playing With Power” by Ian Williams at Giant Bomb, an intro to what unions are and what they could do for the game industry
- Videogames are Destroying the People Who Make Them - NYT article about crunch
- “The universe has been outsourced” by Michael Thomsen
- Pledge Against Crunch Organized by Tanya Short
- Economic Policy Institute - general info about why unions benefit everyone
- The Video Game Industry is Afraid of Unions - on the SAG strike
- Gameqol: website that measures quality of life in the gaming industry
- An excerpt from Games of Empire the following chapter documenting the legal actions taken by EA workers against crunch in the mid-2000s