Ubisoft Closes Game Studio Where Workers Voted to Unionize Two Weeks Ago (aftermath.site)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/01/12/0542237/ubisoft-closes-game-studio-where-workers-voted-to-unionize-two-weeks-ago
- Source link: https://aftermath.site/ubisoft-halifax-closed-weeks-after-unionizing-cwa-canada/
This means laying off the 71 people at the studio, [2]reports the gaming news site Aftermath :
> [Communications Workers of America's Canadian affiliate, CWA Canada] said in a statement to Aftermath the union will "pursue every legal recourse to ensure that the rights of these workers are respected and not infringed in any way." The union said in a news release that it's illegal in Canada for companies to close businesses because of unionization. That's not necessarily what happened here, according to the news release, but the union is "demanding information from Ubisoft about the reason for the sudden decision to close."
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> "We will be looking for Ubisoft to show us that this had nothing to do with the employees joining a union," former Ubisoft Halifax programmer and bargaining committee member Jon Huffman said in a statement. "The workers, their families, the people of Nova Scotia, and all of us who love video games made in Canada, deserve nothing less...."
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> Before joining Ubisoft, the studio was best known for its work on the Rocksmith franchise; under Ubisoft, it focused squarely on mobile games.
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> Ubisoft Halifax was [3]quickly removed from the Ubisoft website on Wednesday ...
[1] https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/0642250/60-game-workers-form-first-ubisoft-union-in-north-america
[2] https://aftermath.site/ubisoft-halifax-closed-weeks-after-unionizing-cwa-canada/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20260107214109/https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/studio/halifax
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Ah yes, the corporate bootlicker response.
Chicken egg? (Score:4, Insightful)
Will the office close because of unionisation or did the employees unionise because they knew closure and redundancies were coming?
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Considering that everything that was valuable in Ubisoft has been packaged and sold to Tencent and remaining company seems to be just the vehicle to slowly spin down the rest, it's probably the latter.
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Yup correlation is not causation and all that blah..
But if you want to predict why someone does something look at their past behaviour. Historically capitalism doesn't like unions, they get in the way of control and profit.
We need balance in all things. You are not being made to work 7 days a week because of collective action in the past. Learn your history. Capitalism doesn't care about you, you are a resource and a consumer to be exploited. The other 'ism's have their own faults, but being totally governe
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I am Italian, my great-grandmother met Mussolini once, and no, fascism is right-wing.
Re: SOCIALISM And DEI fail. Woke Union Activists. (Score:3)
You are an ill informed cad and bounder. Unions are what got us the labor laws and protections we have. Without them we'd be working 60+ hours a week, in dangerous conditions, for pennies. You need to learn some labor history.
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I didn't read all of this but that doesn't appear to be true.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day_movement
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Jimmy's off his pills again.
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It's probably the opposite. They went woke with their key titles (they made that hilarious NYC hate crime simulator in place of long awaited Japanese Assassin's Creed), and sales cratered.
So everything that was still valuable in the company, like the brands was sold to Tencent last year. Remains of Ubisoft seem to be a vehicle to just spin down a handful of remaining studios.
So wokeness killed the company in another way already. This is likely employees fishing for better severance as they almost certainly
Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
Whenever there's a good reason to boycott something, it's always something I'm not using.
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Ubisoft the gaming company has been dead for a while now. Everything that was valuable has been sold to Tencent last year.
And this is shit tier mobile games side of Ubisoft. Obviously Tencent didn't want it. So it was probably in the process of being shut down when employees decided to unionize in hope of getting better severance payments.
Blockage (Score:2)
When companies tries avoid unions in the Nordic countries, they are sometimes blocked: Unionized workers in other companies refuse to do any service for the blockaded companies, i.e. no mail, no deliveries etc. Tesla Sweden is in that situation. The employers's union isnt fighting it because they dont want competition from non-unionsed companies either, and like the strongly regulated, stable system they get from negotiating with (most of the time) respondsible unions. The often social democratic lead gove
Shame (Score:2)
I guess im not going to get an answer to my query and support was shitty as it was. Too bad they had some lucrative titles coming out.
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They turned Rocksmith in to a SaaS subscription game. Fuck them.