Every day there are new reports of ICE detaining and targeting our communities. Video game devs and the workers who keep our workplaces running are not safe from this.
Thatβs why weβve launched WE DON'T PLAY WITH ICE, a campaign demanding companies commit to becoming 4th Amendment Workplaces.
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 β€οΈβπ₯
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At this yearβs DICE Awards, Ghost of YΕtei VA @erikaishii.bsky.social used their platform to demand that video game workers are treated fairly and with respect.
If you want to be part of our fight to build a better industry, reach out and get connected with an organizer.
Congratulations, Erika! πͺ
I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. β₯οΈ
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "Iβve been laid off 12 months after moving my family to another continent."
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "During my first games role out of college, I experienced a medical event 6 months into my role, and was let go while in the hospital."
Responses to the Weβre Done Playing Petition responses are often brutal. The layoffs game developers experience are shocking, callous, and wreak havoc on their lives, and the lives of the people closest to them.
Have you signed the petition? Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...
Union-Made Game Jam is now open for sign-ups! Next week, UVW members and friends are making some bite-sized, union-themed games to show at our GDC booth! We hope youβll join us! #UnionMadeJam
itch.io/jam/union-ma...
Hi, all.
In panic station mode right now.
I have to get $1595 by Monday or Iβm on the street. Iβm sorry to keep asking, but Iβve nowhere to go, and Iβm sending homemade cookies to anyone who donates $25 or more.
Please spread the word. β€οΈ
PP: www.paypal.me/Briggsycakes
CashApp: $briggsycakes
Workers struggle to carry an oversized trophy as sinister ghostly hands swirl around them trying to claim it. THE GAME INDUSTRY IS DEAD: A VIGIL @ THE PEACOCK THEATER, DEC. 11th 2025, 2-4 PM WE NEED ANSWERS FOR ALL THE LAYOFFS WHILE VIDEO GAME COMPANIES TURN MASSIVE PROFIT
We gather here at PEACOCK SQUARE, 2-4 PM PT TODAY to celebrate the life of a once vibrant game industry, killed far too soon by greedy bosses. Wear your mourning fit, and join us for a candlelight vigil in front of The Game Awards, because THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD!
actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...
A stained glass-style depiction of The Game Awards trophy, emerging from a bank safe with green bills pouring out the opening. Two large ominous hands hover around the trophy, one holding a scythe to its torso. The depiction is headlined with THE AVARICE AWARDS, with details below: PRESENTED BY UNITED VIDEOGAME WORKERS, A CODE-CWA UNION LIVE ON DEC. 10TH AT 7 PM PT AT HTTPS://TWITCH.TV/UVW_CWA
The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!
Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
Vote to tell UVW whose layoff announcement was the most cringe! ππ
Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome β union members or not. Sign up here:
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thursdays are now weekly calls to action to strike for palestine so if you're able to, please take a bit of time to do some actions & share some gfms/info/resources today (and every day).
if you don't know where to start, check out our linktree: linktr.ee/brewcrewforl...
As recent waves of layoffs impact our fellow workers and union members, we see again and again how little the word of your boss means when it is not backed up by a union contract or challenged with collective action.
Help create the future of the games industry! On 8/20, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome β union members or not. Sign up here: uvw-cwa.org/townhall-reg...
Prints are up in the shop! Iβve got a few more cons this season but Iβll put up the remainder after those.
www.etsy.com/shop/berntkat/
Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech
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#VTuber #YuriLife
If you're mad about these layoffs (and every other layoff that's happened over the last few years in this trashfire of an industry) please sign & share this petition. Channel that rage into action. It's just a small 1st step, but it's an important one.
actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...
This past weekend, as hundreds of game workers flew into LA to attend Summer Game Fest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorized the Los Angeles community, raiding neighborhoods, separating families, assaulting citizens, and detaining SEIU President David Huerta. Many of us in the game industry call Los Angeles our home, and we feel these attacks on a deep and personal level. United Videogame Workers-CWA stands in solidarity with SEIU, UNITE HERE, United Farm Workers, SAG-AFTRA, The Animation Guild, IATSE, and all our fellow unions and organizations condemning these ongoing federal raids targeting workers. We are thrilled that David has been released and echo SEIUβs calls to drop his unjust charges and for ICE to immediately end their violent raids against us and our neighbors. The United States is built on the backs of immigrant workers, documented or otherwise, and the Trump administrationβs racist and violent oppression serves only to undermine our labor and strike fear in our communities. As workers of an anti-racist union; as workers with H-1B visas; as workers with immigrant families and friends and colleagues; we condemn these abhorrent acts of outright fascism and colonial subjugation. Our game industry is a deeply international one, and our art is built from cultures and perspectives that simply cannot and will not be contained by borders. UVW-CWA exists to protect all game workers across the US and Canada, regardless of immigration status, and we strive to extend that reach to all corners of the globe through connections and shared struggle. When solidarity transcends nations, no human is illegal!
Seattle area comic artists (esp folks who have gone thru traditional publishing) a local org is putting on an event for low income teen and is looking for comic artists to volunteer to come chat with them. Evening of 4/18. If you're available and interested dm us and I'll forward your contact info!
We need to pay $2314.47 in back rent by the 4th. We still have our ko-fi goal which is now at 90%! We started this in January and it's been helping us to pay rent and 20% of this has also gone to help pay off a loan we took to help with my medical care last year.
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
TRANS RIGHTS π³οΈββ§οΈ
Artists! TrueRef has some new things to test. First, our new timed gesture drawing tool and then our improved free gallery!
Both are still WIPs, but their base functions are there and I want to know what's good, bad or broken.
Links below! π€
Online enough to know about the cursed boycott gofundme, offline enough to have never seen the url for the cursed boycott gofundme come across my feed ππ»
