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Sega The workers at Sega are the latest game developers to embrace unionization, as employees at Sega of America have just voted to unionize. We first learned that workers at Sega of America wanted to unionize in April to improve their pay, benefits, and work hours, per Axios. A group of employees from departments like marketing, localization, testing, and product development began working with the Nation Labor Relations Board and Communication Workers of America to unionize then. Sega of America management decided…

Apple has been known to treat unions with some degree of distrust, but now it looks like it could be actively singling out unionized staff and disciplining them unfairly. In a new report from the New York Times, there is evidence and testimony from some unionized staff who've been fired and, in their eyes, treated differently from other employees.This could put Apple in hot water – although, as yet, nothing has happened beyond the affected talking about their experiences.Maryland was the first store to unionize in the…

Amazon has a lot of rules for its delivery drivers: clipped nails, no body odor, clean ears, etc... These strict requirements govern everything from personal grooming to online activity (couriers wearing the Amazon uniform are barred from posting anything obscene). The company also sets its drivers’ wage minimums, delivery schedules, routes, and metes out discipline.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'It’s so much micromanaging that it’s almost hard to believe that none of these workers are actually employed by Amazon. Instead,…

Apple has had a track record with union busting, especially with its retail store employees, and it looks like the company isn't planning on changing that anytime soon. There have been talks of unionizing among Apple Store workers across the US, and Apple hasn't been too keen on it. Now, the company is pushing harder to curb these unionization attempts.According to Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter (opens in new tab), Apple has begun holding meetings with retail store workers to discuss the risks of…

Image: Courtesy of TCGunionAs the first subsidiary of eBay to unionize, TCGplayer—a site where collectors can buy and sell any number of collectible cards used in games like Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic: The Gathering, and Pokémon—knew that it was going to face opposition from management. Now, only a week after its successful supermajority vote to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union has filed several unfair labor practice charges against eBay itself.The CWA alleges that eBay held illegal captive…

Tesla has fired dozens of employees at Gigafactory New York after a new unionization effort was launched this week, according to a new complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board. As we reported earlier this week, workers at Gigafactory New York, where now almost a thousand workers perform data annotation for Tesla’s Autopilot and self-driving efforts, announced their intent to unionize. The effort started with the data labelers who want better pay, job security, and less tracking at…

Last month, Amazon failed to overturn a Staten Island warehouse's vote to unionize and now it has taken another loss. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has ruled that the the company broke federal labor laws in an effort to push back a unionization drive at that facility and another that voted against the union, The New York Times has reported. Amazon can still appeal the ruling to the NLRB's Washington board. Federal administrative judge Benjamin Green ruled that Amazon supervisors unlawfully threatened wage…

Proletariat, an Activision Blizzard owned studio working on World of Warcraft, has withdrawn its request to unionize following "confrontational tactics" from both its parent company and current CEO.As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the Communication Workers of America came to the decision after realizing Activision Blizzard was making it "impossible" to hold a "fair and free election." According to a union representative, Proletariat CEO Seth Sivak was influenced by Activision Blizzard's anti-union…

When thousands of workers at an Amazon. AMZN -2.59% com Inc. warehouse in New York voted to unionize earlier this year, Nannette Plascencia thought her facility east of Los Angeles could be among those to vote next.She spent months organizing with other employees, holding meetings and passing out fliers outside her warehouse in Moreno Valley, Calif. In October, shortly after filing to hold a union election, Ms. Plascencia and other…

Another studio moves towards unionization Quality assurance, or QA, employees at ZeniMax Media are currently holding a vote on whether or not they should form a union. Over 300 workers are part of a group that’s now determining whether it will join growing unionization efforts in the industry. As the New York Times reports, quality assurance employees at ZeniMax are conducting a vote. Workers will be allowed to sign a union authorization card, or weigh in anonymously over electronic means. This process will conclude at…