Video Game Workers Unite!

When in doubt, talk it out.


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nicknamed “The Conversation”

Had a lot more planned for today, but I’m currently running on negative minutes to spare, so this post is about as quick a scattershot as I can muster. Figured I’d shared with you an interesting article that discusses a brand new union that was formed between both America and Canada in the name of rights for video game workers called the UVW-CWA, which will hopefully strengthen the industry by protecting workers and looking out for the most vulnerable within the field itself. This is on the tail of a number of disastrous years for video games, where dozens of studios have shuttered and a good ten thousand workers have lost their job, in spite of developing great games, so this is right on time. I was just reading another article in Edge magazine, where they interviewed a number of big names in the industry about what kind of positive changes they’d love to see, and what video games need the most, and the collective desire was more cushion and safety for workers the industry over. Hopefully, this union is an excellent step in the right direction to accomplish that.

That’s it for now. Stay groovy.

~Pashford