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NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike

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Striking New York Times Technicians have created a Guild Builds page dedicated to strike-themed games you can play, including a spin-on variant Wordle, a word search and the custom Connections I already reported on it today. As part of its strike announcement on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild urged people not to cross … Read more

Striking NYT tech workers made a custom Connections so you don’t cross the picket line

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Striking New York Times Technicians have created a custom Connections Puzzle so fans can find their daily solution without crossing the digital picket line. “We saw an outpouring of support from subscribers who proudly tweeted that they intentionally broke their streak to support our forwards,” said Jen Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the NewsGuild of New … Read more

Google accused of violating labor law for asking workers to ‘refrain’ from talking about antitrust case

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The Alphabet Workers Union filed a lawsuit against Google with the National Labor Relations Board after Google management asked workers not to talk about the ongoing antitrust case against Search. According to a copy of the lawsuit filed and viewed in August, the union accuses Google of adopting an “overly broad policy” for discussing the … Read more

Leadership at Don’t Nod are “creating an atmosphere of extreme violence” with planned layoffs, says French game workers union

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Leadership at Don’t Nod yesterday “presented a reorganisation project to the employee representative bodies,” via financials report, in response to “a balance sheet that highlights the need to secure the company’s resources” following the underperformance of Jusant and Banishers: Ghosts of new Eden.

In plain terms, this means that up to 69 workers at the French company are at risk of layoffs due to an 11% year-on-year decline in operating revenue, via IGN. The number represents “29% of the Paris studio workforce”, say the STJV.

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Riot lay off more workers for the second time in a year – and add “evolving” to our big list of nonsense words companies use to describe job cuts

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Riot Games are cutting more jobs at their studios, the company announced today. This is the second time in a year the League of Legends developer has laid off workers. Chairman and co-founder of Riot, Marc Merrill, made the announcement yesterday, claiming that by cutting these jobs the company was “evolving League” and “investing heavily in solving today’s challenges”. A total of 32 people have lost their jobs, mostly workers on League of Legends, according to a figure the developer gave to our sister site Eurogamer.

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