#iwgb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #iwgb, aggregated by home.social.
-
Rockstar Games Faces Claims of Union Busting Following Mass Dismissals
Rockstar Games faces union busting claims in Glasgow after 30+ employees were fired. The IWGB union seeks reinstatement for workers.
#RockstarGames, #UnionBusting, #Glasgow, #IWGB, #GameWorkers
https://newsletter.tf/rockstar-games-union-busting-glasgow-tribunal/
-
Over 30 Rockstar Games employees were fired in late October 2025, with their union claiming it was union busting. Rockstar says it was for gross misconduct.
#RockstarGames, #UnionBusting, #Glasgow, #IWGB, #GameWorkers
https://newsletter.tf/rockstar-games-union-busting-glasgow-tribunal/ -
UK-Based Rockstar Game Workers Formally Announce Union
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/rockstar-games-workers-union-public-announcement/
-
UK-Based Rockstar Game Workers Formally Announce Union
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/rockstar-games-workers-union-public-announcement/
-
Let's go IWGB!
"We reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law" - union and GTA 6 maker clash again around preliminary hearing for fired workers
-
Let's go IWGB!
"We reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law" - union and GTA 6 maker clash again around preliminary hearing for fired workers
-
An interview with #IWGB, Independent Workers of Great Britain, Organizer Rema about Pan-Africanism, Internationalism and the organization of #gigeconomy workers.
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/grand-theft-lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Workers%27_Union_of_Great_Britain
#3CR #CommunityRadio #LabourMovement #Organize #Solidarity #unions
-
(Dec 2025) Video Game Unions Meet
Coordinadora Sindical del Videojuego - #CGT (Spain)
#FIOM-CGIL Milan Work Council (Italy)
ver.di Game Devs Roundtable (Germany)
Game Workers Unite Ireland - #FSU (Ireland)
#IWGB Game Workers (United Kingdom)
Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (France)
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/one-industry-one-fightMore (Aug 2025)
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/video-game-worker-unions-and-revolution#frombelow #GameWorkers #LabourMovement #organize #solidarity #unions
-
Union rep says Rockstar’s mass-firings were meant to create fear and ‘decimate […] solidarity’
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/11/25/union-rep-says-rockstars-mass-firings-were-meant-to-create-fear-and-decimate-solidarity
#Rockstar #TakeTwo #IWGB -
Union rep says Rockstar’s mass-firings were meant to create fear and ‘decimate […] solidarity’
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/11/25/union-rep-says-rockstars-mass-firings-were-meant-to-create-fear-and-decimate-solidarity
#Rockstar #TakeTwo #IWGB -
Following Firings And Grand Theft Auto VI Delay, Union Plans To Keep Pressure On Rockstar
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/grand-theft-auto-vi-delay-union-protest-rockstar/
-
What’s disgusting ?
Union busting !“Next year, Grand Theft Auto VI is expected to make upwards of $10 billion. That’s enough to end world hunger for a year. Such a flagrant attack on workers' rights from such a valuable studio sends a very clear and shocking message to the world, that money matters more than people."
https://iwgb.org.uk/en/post/staff-at-rockstar-fired-en-massehttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/rockstar_games_fires_staff_in/
#GrandTheftAuto #IWGB #LabourMovement #Organize #RockstarGames #techworkers #unionbusting #Unions
-
What’s disgusting ?
Union busting !“Next year, Grand Theft Auto VI is expected to make upwards of $10 billion. That’s enough to end world hunger for a year. Such a flagrant attack on workers' rights from such a valuable studio sends a very clear and shocking message to the world, that money matters more than people."
https://iwgb.org.uk/en/post/staff-at-rockstar-fired-en-massehttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/rockstar_games_fires_staff_in/
#GrandTheftAuto #IWGB #LabourMovement #Organize #RockstarGames #techworkers #unionbusting #Unions
-
There has been a LOT of human job losses due to #AI in the #GameDevelopment industry. Good to see folks taking a stand!
Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what #ActivisionBlizzard's newly unionised employees want from #Microsoft
A big development.
By Connor Makar, Published on Aug. 22, 2025
Excerpt: "[Scott Alsworth from the #UK's #IWGB Union] credits the increase in #unionisation efforts to several factors: #TechnologicalDisplacement (especially poignant with the push for #AI), a greater number of #WorkingClass people joining the video game industry who bring a greater awareness of unionisation, and a response to the state of the industry as a whole."
#Unionise #Unionize #GameDevelopment #AISucks #JobDisplacement #HumanJobs #VideoGames #VideoGamingNews
-
There has been a LOT of human job losses due to #AI in the #GameDevelopment industry. Good to see folks taking a stand!
Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what #ActivisionBlizzard's newly unionised employees want from #Microsoft
A big development.
By Connor Makar, Published on Aug. 22, 2025
Excerpt: "[Scott Alsworth from the #UK's #IWGB Union] credits the increase in #unionisation efforts to several factors: #TechnologicalDisplacement (especially poignant with the push for #AI), a greater number of #WorkingClass people joining the video game industry who bring a greater awareness of unionisation, and a response to the state of the industry as a whole."
#Unionise #Unionize #GameDevelopment #AISucks #JobDisplacement #HumanJobs #VideoGames #VideoGamingNews
-
This is how trade unions do democracy: we share and learn about our collective power, discuss and vote motions, elect the Committee, and have a jolly good time together!
This year's AGM of the Game Workers is on June 8th, 1 to 3 pm in several locations.
Register here! :ablobfoxbongo:
https://iwgbgameworkers.notion.site/Annual-General-Meeting-2024-c05251098bb84ad2bcfe16ea66f56637 -
This is how trade unions do democracy: we share and learn about our collective power, discuss and vote motions, elect the Committee, and have a jolly good time together!
This year's AGM of the Game Workers is on June 8th, 1 to 3 pm in several locations.
Register here! :ablobfoxbongo:
https://iwgbgameworkers.notion.site/Annual-General-Meeting-2024-c05251098bb84ad2bcfe16ea66f56637 -
Deliveroo strikes: App encouraged restaurants to call police on workers’ action | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/deliveroo-strikes-police-delivery-workers-riders-drivers-gig-economy-fair-pay/#Deliveroo
#Strike
#Strikes
#Restaurants
#Restaurant
#IndependentWorkersUnionOfGreatBritain
#IWGB
#WorkersRights
#GigEconomy
#GigEconomyWorkers
#DarkKitchen
#DeliveryOnlyKitchen
#NottingHill
#DeliveryJobUK
#Police
#PoliceAbuseOfPowers -
The world can wait for GTA 6. Stop forcing your employees back into the office!
Rockstar wants folks back in the office despite saying otherwise - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/rockstar-wants-folks-back-in-the-office-despite-saying-otherwise/
#GTA6 #IWGB #RockstarGames #Union #WorkFromHome #Gaming #DCA
-
The world can wait for GTA 6. Stop forcing your employees back into the office!
Rockstar wants folks back in the office despite saying otherwise - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/rockstar-wants-folks-back-in-the-office-despite-saying-otherwise/
#GTA6 #IWGB #RockstarGames #Union #WorkFromHome #Gaming #DCA
-
Collective action works!
Gaming union in UK grow as layoff fears grow in gaming industry - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/gaming-union-in-uk-grow-as-layoff-fears-grow-in-gaming-industry/
-
Collective action works!
Gaming union in UK grow as layoff fears grow in gaming industry - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/gaming-union-in-uk-grow-as-layoff-fears-grow-in-gaming-industry/
-
RSA Found to have Wrongly Fired Staffer for Union Organising
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/11/07/rsa-found-to-have-wrongly-fired-staffer-for-union-organising/
"In 2019, the Royal Society of the Arts awarded the IWGB trade union with a Future of Work Award for making “an impact where traditional unions have struggled” by “placing decision-making power directly in the hands of workers”.
But just four years later, when RSA employees tried to form a branch with that same union, a bitter fight with management ensued".
-
RSA staff vote overwhelmingly for their first strike action
Staff members at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), have voted to go on strike for the first time in the charity’s 270 year history.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/06/rsa-staff-vote-overwhelmingly-for-their-first-strike-action/
#IWGB #RoyalSocietyOfArts #RSA #StrikeAction -
RSA staff vote overwhelmingly for their first strike action
Staff members at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), have voted to go on strike for the first time in the charity’s 270 year history.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/06/rsa-staff-vote-overwhelmingly-for-their-first-strike-action/
#IWGB #RoyalSocietyOfArts #RSA #StrikeAction -
UCL guards bring anti-cuts protest to the Provost
The 99% black and brown security workforce are the only ones in the university being targeted with the fire-and-rehire scheme
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/04/ucl-guards-bring-anti-cuts-protest-to-the-provost/
#BidvestNoonan #IndependentWorkersUnionOfGreatBritain #IWGB #outsourcing #UCL -
UCL guards bring anti-cuts protest to the Provost
The 99% black and brown security workforce are the only ones in the university being targeted with the fire-and-rehire scheme
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/04/ucl-guards-bring-anti-cuts-protest-to-the-provost/
#BidvestNoonan #IndependentWorkersUnionOfGreatBritain #IWGB #outsourcing #UCL -
Vodafone’s outsourced migrant cleaners storm Oxford Street store to demand sick pay and a liveable wage
Migrant workers who clean Vodafone’s head offices assembled at their flagship Oxford Street store on Saturday for a surprise protest demanding fair pay and proper s
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/03/07/vodafones-outsourced-migrant-cleaners-storm-oxford-street-store-to-demand-sick-pay-and-a-liveable-wage/
#Activism #Cleaners #IWGB #LondonLivingWage #mitie #OxfordSt #Protest #Vodafone -
Vodafone’s outsourced migrant cleaners storm Oxford Street store to demand sick pay and a liveable wage
Migrant workers who clean Vodafone’s head offices assembled at their flagship Oxford Street store on Saturday for a surprise protest demanding fair pay and proper s
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/03/07/vodafones-outsourced-migrant-cleaners-storm-oxford-street-store-to-demand-sick-pay-and-a-liveable-wage/
#Activism #Cleaners #IWGB #LondonLivingWage #mitie #OxfordSt #Protest #Vodafone -
New survey reveals the hidden cost of living in the gig economy this Christmas
20 December 2022: As people across the country struggle with the cost of living crisis this Christmas, a new survey by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) reveals the extent of its triple impact on platform worker
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/21/new-survey-reveals-the-hidden-cost-of-living-in-the-gig-economy-this-christmas/
#amazon #CostofLivingCrisis #Deliveroo #gigeconomy #IWGB #Uber -
New survey reveals the hidden cost of living in the gig economy this Christmas
20 December 2022: As people across the country struggle with the cost of living crisis this Christmas, a new survey by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) reveals the extent of its triple impact on platform worker
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/21/new-survey-reveals-the-hidden-cost-of-living-in-the-gig-economy-this-christmas/
#amazon #CostofLivingCrisis #Deliveroo #gigeconomy #IWGB #Uber -
Cleaners end exploitative outsourcing at London Bridge Hospital
Cleaners, catering and housekeeping staff from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) have won an end to exploitative outsourcing at the prestigious private London Bridge Hospital, following the launch of a campaign earlier this year.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/11/22/cleaners-end-exploitative-outsourcing-at-london-bridge-hospital/
#HCA #IWGB #londonbridgehospital #outsourcing #Solidarity #whistleblowing -
Cleaners end exploitative outsourcing at London Bridge Hospital
Cleaners, catering and housekeeping staff from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) have won an end to exploitative outsourcing at the prestigious private London Bridge Hospital, following the launch of a campaign earlier this year.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/11/22/cleaners-end-exploitative-outsourcing-at-london-bridge-hospital/
#HCA #IWGB #londonbridgehospital #outsourcing #Solidarity #whistleblowing -
By way of an introduction
I work as a #researcher with interests in #labourprocess, #workersinquiry, #marxism, and #classcomposition. I'm an editor at #historicalmaterialism and #notesfrombelow
I organise with #iwgb, #ucu, and a project for supporting new worker organising #organisenow!
As a side project, I'm also interested in #scifibooks and have written some things for #redfutures
-
By way of an introduction
I work as a #researcher with interests in #labourprocess, #workersinquiry, #marxism, and #classcomposition. I'm an editor at #historicalmaterialism and #notesfrombelow
I organise with #iwgb, #ucu, and a project for supporting new worker organising #organisenow!
As a side project, I'm also interested in #scifibooks and have written some things for #redfutures
-
Overworked migrant cleaners at Vodafone launch campaign over pay and sick pay
At the peak of the cost of living crisis, outsourced migrant cleaners from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) working at Vodafone HQ launch a campaign for fair pay and proper sick pay, following years of chronic overwork and vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/07/07/overworked-migrant-cleaners-at-vodafone-launch-campaign-over-pay-and-sick-pay/
#IWGB #Outsourcedworkers #Vodafone #workersrights -
Couriers rally against police harassment after Dalston raids
Crowds turned out in support of the protest in Hackney, London, yesterday which saw couriers call on the Met police to rethink their aggressive overpolicing strategy.The event took place in the wake of a confrontation on May 14th which saw police run out of Dalston by local people af
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/26/couriers-rally-against-police-harassment-after-dalston-raids/
#couriers #Dalston #IWGB #policeharassment -
Seit Monaten streiken in Großbritannien die #Rider der #IWGB mit unglaublicher Energie gegen @Deliveroo. Jetzt hat die Gewerkschaft #GMB einen Gefälligkeits-#Tarifvertrag hinter dem Rücken der Fahrer:innen abgeschlossen. Manche nennen sowas eine #Scab-Union...
https://iwgb.org.uk/en/post/deliveroo-gmb/ -
Four workers at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suspended after peacefully protesting pay discrimination
At least four cleaners who attended a peaceful protest at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have been informed they will be suspended from work pending i
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/25/four-workers-at-london-school-of-hygiene-and-tropical-medicine-suspended-after-peacefully-protesting-pay-discrimination/
#IWGB #unionbusting #workersrights -
Striking JustEat couriers to demonstrate outside Greggs Newcastle HQ
Striking JustEat couriers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) will demonstrate outside of JustEat client Greggs’s Newcastle HQ building today, Thursday 24th March, at 1 pm over pay cuts. Couriers are employed by subcontractor Stuart Delive
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/24/striking-justeat-couriers-to-demonstrate-outside-greggs-newcastle-hq/
#gigeconomy #IWGB #Newcastle #strike #workersrights -
Striking JustEat couriers to demonstrate outside Greggs Newcastle HQ
Striking JustEat couriers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) will demonstrate outside of JustEat client Greggs’s Newcastle HQ building today, Thursday 24th March at 1 pm over pay cuts. Couriers are employed by subcontractor Stuart Deliver
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/24/striking-justeat-couriers-to-demonstrate-outside-greggs-newcastle-hq/
#gigeconomy #IWGB #Newcastle #strike #workersrights -
Campaigners join London cycling instructors in call to scrap devastating 100% cuts to cycle training
Women's cycling campaigners, local business owners, councillors, cyclists, and cycling instructors across London have signed an open letter calling for Sadiq Khan to immediately cancel propose
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/22/campaigners-join-london-cycling-instructors-in-call-to-scrap-devastating-100-cuts-to-cycle-training/
#Climateemergency #Environment #IWGB #London #workersrights -
Migrant cleaners at London Bridge Hospital whistleblow on Covid safety violations and launch campaign against HCA Healthcare
Outsourced migrant workers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) who clean at London Bridge Hospital launched a campai
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/02/15/migrant-cleaners-at-london-bridge-hospital-whistleblow-on-covid-safety-violations-and-launch-campaign-against-hca-healthcare/
#COVID-19 #IWGB #Outsourcedworkers #TradeUnions #workersrights -
Glasgow foster carers to demonstrate outside Town Hall as IWGB reveals council spends 2.4x more on privatised foster care
Glasgow foster carers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) will demonstrate in George Square on Friday 11 February at 11am over Glasgow City Counc
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/02/09/glasgow-foster-carers-to-demonstrate-outside-town-hall-as-iwgb-reveals-council-spends-2-4x-more-on-privatised-foster-care/
#Glascow #IWGB #Scotland #workersrights