Writers for Lovestruck, a mobile game produced by Voltage Entertainment USA, have won an average 78 per cent pay increase and greater transparency at work after a ground-breaking 21-day strike. It is the first successful game worker strike in the history of the game development industry.   The 21 workers, who write romantic interactive fiction, were were supported by UNI Global Union affiliate, the Communications Workers of America (CWA). CWA President Chris Shelton said:

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I have been writing for the last few years of an emerging trend of global unions collaborating with American Labor. This is an article writing by the UNI Global union reporting about a small virtual strike by 21 writers who won a salary increase. What is interesting to me is that a successful virtual strike in the game development industry is a first, the expanding use of social media and technology in developing new union organizing tactics and the developing relationship between US and global labor organizations on a minute level. This is part of the organization’s self-description on their web site. “UNI Global Union, based in Nyon, Switzerland, represents more than 20 million workers from over 150 different countries in the fastest growing sectors in the world – skills and services. A total of 90% of new jobs are expected to be in these sectors in the next decade. UNI and our affiliates in all regions are driven by the responsibility to ensure these jobs are decent and workers’ rights are protected, including the right to join a union and collective bargaining.”

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Employment in the industry has already fallen from around 512,000 workers in March to about 380,000 in June…

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The California Department of Justice prevailed on Monday, with Judge Ethan Schulman granting the state’s request for an injunction.

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“When people feel something is unfair, we respond as if it were a threat and go into fight or flight mode.” – Marcia Reynolds Psy.

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There has been a tipping point in America setting us in a time of turmoil. While the Covid-19 virus and financial crisis along with national mass protests fueled by racial injustice may have been the tipping point we should have prepared for a "new world" long ago.

Are we now at a stage where trust in governmental and business institutions are lost? History shows that feelings of unfairness and fear are great motivators of change. It is the responsibility of political and business leaders to find ways to adapt to this new normal and discover better paths to

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There has been a tipping point in America setting us in a time of turmoil. While the Covid-19 virus and financial crisis along with national mass protests fueled by racial injustice may have been the tipping point we should have prepared for a "new world" long ago.

Are we now at a stage where trust in governmental and business institutions are lost? History shows that feelings of unfairness and fear are great motivators of change. It is the responsibility of political and business leaders to find ways to adapt to this new normal and discover better paths to success.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second largest teachers union in the U.S., launched a $500,000 ad campaign Monday accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of stonewalling funds to…

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The virus is surging in the Central Valley, where hundreds of thousands labor in the food industry. Workers say companies did little to prevent the spread

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