In the wake of a groundbreaking 21-day strike, writers for Lovestruck, a mobile game produced by Voltage Entertainment USA, will return to work after negotiating pay increases averaging 78%...
Solidarity with the Meow Wolf Workers Collective! Workers at Meow Wolf, an artsy collective based in Santa Fe that’s been profiled by The New York Times Magazine and even once got $2.7 million from George R. R. Martin, are voting to join CWA on Monday, and we could not be more excited...
This is a volatile political moment. If you saw the debate (and really if you’ve been paying any attention at all), it’s hard to shake the feeling of a profound political decline and crisis facing the United States...
This week we’re feeling motivated. Lots of the worker news in this week’s newsletter is positive movement.
From consultants at progressive political agency Blue State winning their CODE-CWA unionization campaign and joining CWA, to a Facebook employee becoming a prominent whistleblower, to nurses in the south winning their largest unionization campaign since 1975, it’s hard to feel like the labor movement isn’t gaining momentum during this pandemic.
Happy Labor Day Weekend! We hope that those of you who have today off have some time to rest and recover.
There’s lots of exciting news in this week’s newsletter. Just in time for Labor Day, a new poll was released showing record support for labor unions in the United States. Workers are organizing in the video game industry, the gig economy, and more. We also cover the history of the American Labor Day and explain why the United States no longer celebrates International Workers Day alongside the rest of the world.
Hello! We’ve made it through another week in quarantine.
First off, we want to express solidarity with the drivers at Uber and Lyft in California this week...
This was an exciting week.
Yesterday, news broke that the Voltage Entertainment writers won the first-ever successful game worker strike in the industry's history...
In this challenging moment, we’re inspired by worker solidarity. We’re now four months into lockdown for many of us in the United States, and sometimes it feels like the weight of the world is on our shoulders...
We are in the midst of several crises that are intersecting and revealing greater and greater disparities and injustices. There is a lot to grieve, to be enraged by, to feel overwhelmed by, but, this is also an incredible moment of possibility.
We are so proud of the glitch workers bargaining for the recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday; tech workers must stand up for racial justice as an integral part of their fight for power in the workplace...
