“The bosses can no longer ignore us” | EUROtoday

For the primary time in France, the entire online game employees are known as upon to strike on Thursday, February 13. There are rallies in a number of cities similar to Paris, Lyon or Montpellier, to protest towards layoffs and poor working situations within the sector and declare extra transparency on the a part of firms and their bosses. In any case, these are the claims of the Syndicate of Workers of the Video Games (STJV), on the initiative of the decision for nationwide strike.

At the time of its creation, in September 2017, this union group, which now claims practically a thousand members – In a sector which has 11,900 employees, in accordance with the most recent figures (2018) of the Directorate General of Business -, was solely made up of twenty souls. All mues by a typical aim: to place an finish to “Union desert” In which the French online game was, recollects Vincent Cambedouzou, union consultant within the French studio Ubisoft and de facto spokesperson for the STJV.

By changing into a properly recognized intermediate physique, able to structuring collective mobilizations inside varied firms in France, the STJV appears since having succeeded in its wager. Finished the time when his few union members gave an anonymously assembly in empty bars to specialised journalists, the identical right now organizes press conferences, seem on tv underneath their true id and name for the nationwide strike in A sector that had by no means recognized it.

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