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Photo of the CWA march at GDC

Photo of the CWA march at GDC

Photo of the CWA rally at GDC

Photo of the CWA rally at GDC

Union strong!!! 💪♥️ @videogameworkers.bsky.social

12.03.2026 01:57 👍 59 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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That’s my union ✊🏼🖤

@videogameworkers.bsky.social ❤️

12.03.2026 02:35 👍 98 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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Unions band together to launch new game industry conference 'by workers, for workers' The Game Workers Conference will be hosted online and made freely accessible.

Unions band together to launch new game industry conference 'by workers, for workers'

11.03.2026 23:47 👍 313 🔁 125 💬 0 📌 8
A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.

A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers?

The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

11.03.2026 20:53 👍 362 🔁 204 💬 7 📌 4
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11.03.2026 23:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Come join us for a panel with @videogameworkers.bsky.social in Rm 2011 to get updates on how we've been organizing the tech and video game industries!

11.03.2026 22:04 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

remember when we marched to the yerba buena gardens last year to rally for video game worker power ??? look what they did now:

11.03.2026 22:08 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
The CODE-CWA/UVW booth!

The CODE-CWA/UVW booth!

we out here

11.03.2026 16:38 👍 97 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1

Congratulations to the workers at Heart Machine! It's great to see more unions winning voluntary recognition!

Félicitations aux travailleu·se·rs de Heart Machine! C'est bon de voir plus de syndicats obtenir la reconaissance volontaire par leur employeur!

11.03.2026 02:11 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

because al-qaeda is now back to working for the US

10.03.2026 22:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The studio where you experienced the most appaling level of misogyny is on LinkedIn for International Women’s Rights Day sharing pictures of their handful of women employees with quotes on how they love working there lmao

10.03.2026 15:54 👍 86 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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Hyper Light Drifter studio Heart Machine voluntarily recognises union 13 members of staff have formed a bargaining unit at the developer following several rounds of layoffs

Congrats to the folks at Heart Machine on having their union recognized!

#solidarity #gwu

www.gamesindustry.biz/hyper-light-...

10.03.2026 16:37 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

i love it when a house of cards comes tumbling down

09.03.2026 23:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union Workers at the studio behind ‘Solar Ash’ and ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ will soon be represented by a Burbank-based Communications Workers of America Local.

Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

09.03.2026 20:45 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

wild to see a studio voluntarily recognize a union. almost as if that's something every company could do!

09.03.2026 14:59 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I am so, *so* fucking proud of the work folks have done to unionize at Heart Machine. 🖤

09.03.2026 14:44 👍 331 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 1

Iran calls the United States the Great Satan, but would the Great Satan turn the day into night, create rivers of fire and poison the rain?

09.03.2026 10:27 👍 386 🔁 96 💬 8 📌 4

"A supermajority of workers at the studio asked management to voluntarily recognize the union in February 2026. Leadership agreed to the request, paving the way for employees to organize under the CWA banner."

09.03.2026 14:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UVW-CWA members are forming unions at their own studios to make better games and to build a better industry.

Solidarity to the Heart Machine devs - if you’re interested in organizing, this is your sign! Reach out to us either in our DMs or at GDC this week 💪

09.03.2026 13:30 👍 152 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 0
a poster from the pflp with a woman carrying a kalashnikov over her shoulder holding a baby wrapped in a keffiyeh with a sun motif behind

a poster from the pflp with a woman carrying a kalashnikov over her shoulder holding a baby wrapped in a keffiyeh with a sun motif behind

pflp poster for international womens day is incredible

08.03.2026 20:10 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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So true. I have a huge issue with Americans. I’m one of the very few people I know who apologize. Most would rather stick a fork in their eye.

"Apology is a sign of dignity in our culture," Araghchi says. The US doesn't have that culture. They just bomb, kill, and move on.

08.03.2026 18:55 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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👁️👁️👁️

08.03.2026 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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👁️

08.03.2026 18:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This problem isn’t unique to Trump. Capitalism has created an entire class of overpowered emotional babies who are completely shielded from the consequences of their actions.

08.03.2026 17:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

i expect that some stuff in it will feel familiar to you as it did to us, and it's nice to see it all laid out and confirmed like this

08.03.2026 17:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yeah i'm just getting started but i definitely recommend it!

08.03.2026 16:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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an interesting angle i hadn't really considered before is how the "union avoidance" business is in a way a grift scamming the bosses themselves, by preying on their ego and need for control, manipulating them and taking advantage of their narcissism to get them to spend tons money on union-busting

08.03.2026 16:51 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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08.03.2026 16:08 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In 1922, Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai made International Working Women's Day a Soviet holiday on March 8. Later co-opted by bourgeois states in order to placate social issues perpetuated by class warfare, the holiday persists sanitized of its revolutionary and class character.

07.03.2026 22:13 👍 59 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 4