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✊🌀We stand with Ubisoft employees in France and beyond opposing unilateral layoffs, project cancellations, and enforced return-to-office policies pushed without meaningful social dialogue
Creative work needs respect, stability, and worker participation — not top-down mandates!!!!

On a dark background, a red tear goes across the image from left to right. To the left of the image: STRIKE - Ubisoft - February 10, 11, 12 To the right of the image: Rayman in a dynamic pose, throwing a good old fist At the bottom, the STJV's logotype

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft: unions called for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th. Here is the list of all the pickets around France ⤵️

82 percent of US-based game developers support unionization Data from the newly-published 2026 State of the Industry survey offers some insights into the sentiment surrounding unionization across the U.S. video game industry.

82 percent of US-based game developers support unionization

Following the disastrous announcements made by Mr. Yves Guillemot (cost-cutting plan, projects scrapped, end of remote working, etc.), the Solidaires Informatique union is calling for a strike on Thursday, January 22, in the morning. We are calling on Ubisoft Paris employees to strike for half a day, with the following demands: • the end of the cost-cutting plan, • maintaining and extending the teleworking conditions, • decent pay raises this year. This is an initial answer to the absurdity of management's decisions. Other strikes are currently being discussed. It is out of the question to let a boss run wild and destroy our working conditions. Perhaps we need to remind him that it is his employees who make the games.

UBISOFT - Call for strike

Following the disastrous announcements made by Mr. Yves Guillemot (cost-cutting plan, projects scrapped, end of remote working, etc.), the Solidaires Informatique union is calling for a strike on Thursday, January 22, in the morning.

KI in Videospielen: Die Gaming-Industrie streitet mit sich selbst Auch die Videospiel-Industrie setzt zunehmend auf die Künstliche Intelligenz. Doch damit erzürnt sie ihre eigenen Spieler:innen.

Auch die Videospiel-Industrie setzt zunehmend auf die Künstliche Intelligenz. Doch damit erzürnt sie ihre eigenen Spieler:innen.

I think it's interesting that the solicitor says that interim relief can be "draconian" on businesses by forcing the employer to pay for the length of the tribunal process.

So is it "draconian" on individuals to force them to pay for the length of the tribunal?

Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence YouTube video by People Make Games

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

Ubisoft entlässt 55 Angestellte bei Massive Entertainment und Ubisoft Stockholm Ubisoft streicht 55 Stellen, unter anderem bei Massive Entertainment. Zuvor hatte der Publisher den Angestellten die Möglichkeit gegeben, freiwillig zu gehen.

Ubisoft streicht 55 Stellen, unter anderem bei Massive Entertainment. Zuvor hatte der Publisher den Angestellten die Möglichkeit gegeben, freiwillig zu gehen. #Gaming

Workers protest outside Rockstar North in Edinburgh on Friday January 9th.

Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.

Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.

Ubisoft has announced the closure of its Halifax studio, which had been working on mobile titles for Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed.

www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut...

Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers Rockstar's alleged union busting has provoked protests and drawn skepticism from legislators.

Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers
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Ubisoft Halifax staff officially form union This is the first bargaining unit in the French games giant's North American business

Staff at Ubisoft's Halifax studio have officially formed a union

www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-hali...