GWU Portland

The local Portland, OR chapter of @GameWorkers. Building community and organizing workers. DMs open. #GameWorkersUnite ✊🏾🎮

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[Game Workers Alliance 💙#WeAreGWA @WeAreGWA]

Happy union day! We won!

[Emma Kinema ⭐ @EmmaKinema]

🚨⚠️Game Union News! ⚠️🚨

@PaizoWorkers just signed a voluntary recognition agreement with @paizo management.

The workers behind Pathfinder and Starfinder are about to become the FIRST certified unit of game workers in North America with collective bargaining rights!

[Union Nurses @HospitalNurses]

@ashleygjovik Unfair Labor Practice charges @NLRB @NLRBGC @NLRBMcFerran against @Apple provide the best vehicle to overturn previous Trump Board’s anti-worker interpretation of NLRA. ⚖️💪🏽#Apple #UnionStrong #1u

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

BREAKING: IATSE Members in TV and Film Production Voted to Authorize the first nationwide industry strike in our 128-year history.

98.68% voted yes, and voter turnout among eligible members was nearly 90% #IASolidarity #IATSEVoted

[Chambraigne Socialist @bombsfall]

Convos about crunch without a larger project to inform them very quickly become about good vs bad studios/directors/games/people. When worker power, relationship to production, and economics aren't in focus you run into the same swamp that convos about workplace abuse usually do.

[TIME @TIME]

Employees at Blizzard Entertainment began circulating a spreadsheet to anonymously share salaries and recent pay increases, the latest example of rising tension in the video game industry over wage disparities and executive compensation https://t.co/N2q95Npmh8

[Launcher @LauncherWP]

Pregnant women working in the video game industry face extraordinary challenges — above and beyond the usual travails of game development.

https://t.co/to6RO1T9Zi

[GWU Portland @GWU_Portland]

Congratulations!

[OPEIU Local 153 @opeiu153]

We've won another month of healthcare coverage for furloughed workers @UBridgeport!

This means a tremendous amount, especially during a pandemic. The right to collectively bargain brings us one step closer to universal healthcare.

[CODE-CWA @CODE_CWA]

Tech workers: Form a union.

https://t.co/9LBjAPGgFB

[OPEIU Local 153 @opeiu153]

The workers at @UBridgeport have taken good care of the university - but when times got tough, the university failed to reciprocate.

Show the workers some love and RT this post. We can only secure health care coverage with more visibility and pressure on the university.

[GWU Montréal @GWU_Montreal]

Today is May 1st, International Workers' Day! We'd normally be hitting the pavement with fellow workers, but under the current circumstances, we figured this would be a good occasion to pause and look back on our industry's history of labor organizing ✊

[GWU Portland @GWU_Portland]

Happy International Workers Day everyone!

[Crew for a Trader Joe’s Union ✊🌺 @TraderJoesUnion]

Last month, a worker filed an OSHA claim after being sent home for refusing to work without gloves. OSHA settled the claim and the worker received backpay for the lost wages at a standard rate, not with bonuses.

Trader Joe’s claims they never had a policy against gloves.

[Kotaku @Kotaku]

Sources: Despite huge sales, Borderlands 3 developers are getting stiffed on bonuses https://t.co/YWhucpWmWq

[njdotcom @njdotcom]

Instacart workers in N.J. may go on strike amid lack of coronavirus protections, pay https://t.co/qUtz9YeCL6

[OPEIU Local 153 @opeiu153]

Our union represents hundreds of workers at the Municipal Credit Union. Management hired union-busters @JacksonLewisPC to handle contract negotiations and are, unsurprisingly, trying to cut crucial benefits--even during a pandemic. Here's an update we gave to workers.

[april glaser @aprilaser]

BREAKING: Kickstarter workers successfully voted to form the first full-time company wide union in the technology industry. The vote was 36-47 in favor of unionizing, following an 18-month battle during which multiple union organizers were fired https://t.co/OOv7wqcBVJ

[GWU Portland @GWU_Portland]

Congratulations to the workers of Kickstarter!

[Kickstarter United @ksr_united]

#KickstarterUnited has now been certified by the NLRB:
🤝🌟We Are A Union!!!🌟🤝

[CODE-CWA @CODE_CWA]

‼️ CODE-CWA @ GDC Info ‼️

We're hitting up #GDC 2020 with:

⭐🙋🏻‍♀️ A GDC Expo Booth N2625!
📚🤯 Three Organizer Trainings!
🎉💃🏽 The Game Industry Organizing Social ft @GameWorkers and other unions!

More below! 👇🏿👇🏽👇🏾
https://t.co/ewPmRJXR5z

[GWU Portland @GWU_Portland]

We love to see this!

[GWU Montréal @GWU_Montreal]

A small contingent of GWU Montreal members will be attending today’s demonstration in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en land defenders protecting their territories from the RCMP and CGL invasion. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/tG8p1wYMeh