AEGIS-CWA workers are part of a wave of union organizing with video game workers at Activision Blizzard and Microsoft’s Zenimax studio and card and tabletop game workers at companies including eBay subsidiary TCG Player and Paizo forming unions with CWA. Through a union contract, AEGIS-CWA members hope to secure higher base pay for all workers, improved benefits, flexible work opportunities, balanced workloads and clear opportunities for career advancement in addition to other improvements to strengthen the workforce and company. Together, we can raise standards for all workers across the industry,” said Ángel Gómez, Translator and member of AEGIS-CWA.Ī supermajority of workers announced their union on Apand included clear demands to improve their working conditions. We hope our victory today is an inspiration to other workers across the gaming industry.

Together we can build an even better SEGA.

Now, through our union, we’ll be able to protect the parts of our jobs we love, and strengthen the benefits, pay, and job stability available to all workers. From the start of this campaign, it has been clear that we all care deeply about our work at SEGA. 'We are overjoyed to celebrate our union election win as members of AEGIS-CWA. With this victory, AEGIS-CWA became the largest multi-department union of organized workers within the game industry.

The current unit includes over 200 workers based out of the company’s Irvine, CA headquarters and its Burbank, CA offices, including members of the Brand Marketing, Games as a Service, Localization, Marketing Services, PD Ops, Product Development, Sales, Quality Assurance teams, and others. As the workers behind successful franchises like Sonic the Hedgehog, Persona, and Like a Dragon, this union election reflects the growing trend of workers in the video game industry fighting for a sustainable future in the industry by exercising their right to organize.

Workers have unionized under the banner of Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA (AEGIS-CWA) and are represented by Communications Workers of America (CWA). (Irvine, CA) - Today the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that in a 91-26 vote, workers at SEGA of America overwhelmingly won their election for a union.

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