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A French video video games union has known as for Ubisoft workers throughout its France workplaces to strike in October over the corporate’s return-to-office mandate and unsuccessful profit-sharing negotiations.
In keeping with the French union Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV), the “announcement was made with none tangible justification or any session with the employees’ representatives.”
The union additionally said that the mandate would end in some workers shedding their jobs as they’ve tailored to distant working circumstances.
“After greater than 5 years of working effectively within the present remote-work context, a lot of our colleagues have constructed or rebuilt their lives (household life, housing, parenthood, and so on.) and easily can not return to the earlier working circumstances,” mentioned the union.
“Our employer is aware of this completely effectively. The consequence of its choice would be the lack of our colleagues’ jobs, the disorganisation of many sport tasks, and the drastic enhance in psychosocial dangers for many who stay.”
“To precise our anger, we name all Ubisoft workers in France to a primary strike on October 15, 16 and 17. Gathering factors will likely be introduced in every studio for the fifteenth.”
Calls for have been laid out
The union says that its calls for will guarantee flexibility for workers to decide on the variety of distant days and when to take them, with distant days counted month-to-month reasonably than weekly.
It additionally requires restoring profit-sharing to a 60% goal, eliminating the gender pay hole, and growing low salaries.
See the union’s calls for beneath:
- A proper settlement on distant work: with a due means of actual negotiation between administration and unions.
- A right away enhance in all salaries to compensate for the drop in our residing requirements lately.
- Listening to workers’ opinions by the implementation of a “social dialogue” worthy of the identify.
“We remind you, that in France, you profit from a constitutional proper to strike. The fitting to strike in non-public firms.”
“Till confirmed in any other case, video games solely exist because of the employees’ labour, and good video games because of good working circumstances,” mentioned the union.
Ubisoft’s latest setbacks
Ubisoft has confronted important challenges lately, with traders calling for management modifications after disappointing monetary outcomes, video games underperforming and delays in key tasks.
The corporate’s shares have additionally plunged following the postponement of Murderer’s Creed: Shadows.
As a result of shares falling to a 10-year low, a minority investor in Ubisoft has known as for a change in management and for the corporate to be taken non-public or offered.