This week, the Communications Workers of America – one of the largest industrial unions in the country – launched the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE), which seeks to unionize people working for game and tech companies.
The CWA forged an alliance with the grassroots labor group Game Workers Unite (a similar deal was struck in Toronto between the CWA and the local GWU chapter). Two fulltime CWA staffers are charged with assisting tech and game company union organizers. The CWA staffers will assist shop organizers with legal and institutional advice.
