GWU Toronto

The local Toronto chapter of @GameWorkers. Building community and organizing workers. DMs open. Reach out at [email protected]
#GameWorkersUnite ✊🏾🎮

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Interested in getting directly involved with Game Workers Unite Toronto? Fill out this application form!
https://t.co/yVd3w4sMEq

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Howdy folks! It's been a minute!

We're going to be moderating a live panel at the Hand Eye Society Ball this Saturday November 30th in Toronto with @OneBGS_MTL workers talking about how they won their union!

Save the date - we'll see you there! 📅✊🎮

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Can't make it out to the panel and want to talk with fellow workers about organizing? Send us a DM or shoot us an email (link in bio!) and we'll get in touch!

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Howdy folks! It's been a minute!

We're going to be moderating a live panel at the Hand Eye Society Ball this Saturday November 30th in Toronto with @OneBGS_MTL workers talking about how they won their union!

Save the date - we'll see you there! 📅✊🎮

[Hand Eye Society @HandEyeSociety]

Our #SuperFESTival website is LIVE with 30+ featured games, details about our upcoming Twitch shows (starting tonight), and info on our in-person Torontrons and this weekend's Hand Eye Society Ball!

Check it out and join the FESTivities!
https://t.co/22N3kKAEh7

#indiegames

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

As part of Toronto Games Week, we'll be participating in the "If You Don't Like the Game, Change the Rules" panel tonight at Palmerston Library, along with folks from @ZeniMaxWorkers, @soft_chaos, @matajuegos_coop, and @gameartsnetwork! Starts at 6:30, see you there!

[CODE-CWA @CODE_CWA]

Make that 10 new unions 💅 @vodeoworkers.

If you work in the tech, digital or video game industry & want to get on board, slide into our DMs.

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Huge congratulations to @vodeoworkers for forming the first videogame studio union in North America - a massive moment for our ongoing labour movement!

[Vodeo Workers United @vodeoworkers]

Hi!

We are workers at Vodeo Games, and today we’re thrilled to announce that we have come together to form Vodeo Workers United - the first certified union of videogame workers in North America! Organized with @CODE_CWA. 🎉

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Context here: https://t.co/sI7UTEB5we

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Solidarity with #actiblizzwalkout and @ABetterABK. A better future is possible.

[ABetterABK 💙 ABK Workers Alliance @ABetterABK]

We have instituted our own Zero Tolerance Policy. We will not be silenced until Bobby Kotick has been replaced as CEO, and continue to hold our original demand for Third-Party review by an employee-chosen source. We are staging a Walkout today. We welcome you to join us.

[Emma Kinema ⭐ @EmmaKinema]

Oh and don't forget this amazing piece of organizing! Freelancer solidarity helped get the goods 💙
https://t.co/5YzsScxmJ7

[Emma Kinema ⭐ @EmmaKinema]

Also, as far as I can tell, @PaizoWorkers are not just the first North American game workers with union collective bargaining rights...

They are also the first table top game workers in the world to certify their union!

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

The first of many! Huge congrats to @PaizoWorkers!

[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!

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

Solidarity with workers everywhere, today and every day.

[CODE-CWA @CODE_CWA]

Today's a great day to start organizing your workplace!

Do you work in the tech, gaming or digital industry?

Hit us up.

You & your fellow workers deserve a voice on the job—and the power to positively shape your workplace for all!

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

This is a really good look at some of the anti-union tactics employers often use once a campaign goes public. Being aware of them will help you defeat them! https://t.co/jameM9dRfG

[GWU Toronto @GWU_Toronto]

This is so important. We've seen some threads over the past week suggesting that a union is a "third-party". It isn't - the union is you and your co-workers.

[Game Workers of SoCal (GWSC) @GWSoCal]

It's been a big week for the labor movement, everyone's Twitter timeline has been covered in the all-caps "UNIONIZE"

The sentiment is 🔥, but we have a challenge for you: don't just be pro-union in words, be pro-union in actions. 

Our new article and 🧵:
https://t.co/VAetEIS83g

[Game Workers of SoCal (GWSC) @GWSoCal]

It’s easy to see @CODE_CWA or yours truly and think that there are organizations out there "unionizing the industry."

But make no mistake -- union campaigns are run by ordinary game workers. We're here to help, but only *you* can gather your fellow workers into a movement.

[Game Workers of SoCal (GWSC) @GWSoCal]

It's been a big week for the labor movement, everyone's Twitter timeline has been covered in the all-caps "UNIONIZE"

The sentiment is 🔥, but we have a challenge for you: don't just be pro-union in words, be pro-union in actions. 

Our new article and 🧵:
https://t.co/VAetEIS83g

[C @ckjong]

What's important about unionizing isn't the legal structure that gets formed if/when a vote or card check is successful, it's the process of organizing and building solidarity with other workers. It's this process that changes people's worldview, and shifts the balance of power.

[C @ckjong]

Don't just take my word for it, there's plenty of research out there backing this up.
https://t.co/uAwvaKxlwx
https://t.co/zZvZeN0bBH
https://t.co/hhaBZgxXjo
https://t.co/jYK0vWDXyF

[C @ckjong]

No one I know who's involved in labour organizing thinks unions, especially as they currently exist after decades of repression & manipulation by bosses, are perfect or the solution to every problem. But we also know that workers are a LOT better off with unions than without them