Hope this kind of content is allowed in this commnity !

For context: CGT is the main union in France, this is an AMA run by union members of the CGT Ubisoft branch, but there are also other unions calling for a strike (STJV, Solidaires Informatique, CFE-CGC Fieci, CGT, Printemps Ecologiques)

Hello everyone,

We are members of the CGT Ubisoft, and today, we are available to answer your questions until the end of the day.

We are here to discuss everything related to our union experience at Ubisoft, working conditions in the video game industry, and the reasons that led us to call for a strike on October 15.

Do not hesitate to ask your questions, whether it is about the role of the union, the current situation at Ubisoft, or our recent actions. We are here to discuss and provide transparent answers.

We will try to answer most of your questions. However, we may not be able to answer those considered confidential

You can also find us on Instagram to follow our news: https://www.instagram.com/cgtubisoft/

I will translate questions / answers in a comment chain below

  • inlandempireOPEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    Posting it as a separate comment because I feel like the most important info is in there:

    Q:

    What are the reasons for your call for a strike?

    A:

    On September 17, management announced that it wanted to impose 3 days of face-to-face work per week. Many of us have organized our lives around work from home, allowing us to reconcile our professional and personal lives, reduce our travel, manage a disability or be a caregiver. This method has also compensated for the overload due to the non-replacement of colleagues.

    Despite this, no guarantee has been given regarding future negotiations, especially after the failure on profit-sharing, revealing a purely formal social dialogue and management focused on stock market indicators rather than employee commitment.

    We are therefore calling on Ubisoft employees to strike on Tuesday, October 15 in the afternoon to defend the following:

    • ⁠Work from home: preserving work-life balance and employment.
    • ⁠Salary: catching up with inflation and salary scale.
    • ⁠Social dialogue: real negotiations.
    • ⁠Profit-sharing: a 13th month as compensation.
      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Right now, there’s an executive battle to wrestle control of the company away from the original founders. While the founders are probably a bunch of rich assholes, they want to go back to being privately-traded with Tencent’s help, and the alternative is so much worse: venture capitalists in a publicly-traded stock market. They have been driving their IPs into the ground, due to overexposure (looking at you, Assassin’s Creed). No doubt this whole face-to-face decision was bought on by the capitalist assholes trying to sabotage the company and distract the public from what’s actually going on.