For a few years now there has been talk of how there are certain injustices at certain video game companies, including overtime that exhausts the patience of workers, as well as other working conditions that go far beyond normal in comparison to other items. For this reason, unions have worked to create fair rules in the environment, and now the ruling has been announced regarding SEGA, who have now stopped the contract they were carefully working on.
The workers of the American part of this company, a division Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., has become the first employee at a North American video game company to ratify a union contract, a move that could accelerate a growing labor movement in an industry known for unrest among its workforce. It covers about 150 people in marketing and other departments in the division’s Southern California office.
Workers are expected to see annual minimum wage increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026, he said in an interview. Catalina Brennan-Gatica, representative of the Communication Workers of America. It has been slow to come to North America, but has gained momentum in recent years as employees seek contracts at studios Activision Blizzard and ZenimaxBoth owned Microsoft.
Let’s keep that in mind because the ratification of the deal could prompt more parts of the industry to do the same Raven SoftwareThe part is special activation, formed its union at the time, but it would take a long time for the parent company to recognize them as one and accept the formation without some opposition. The best thing is that this contract requires that sega Provide advance notice of layoffs and offer affected employees a minimum of two weeks’ severance pay, with a limit of eight weeks.
It’s also a move after what the company did in those months by letting hundreds of people go and selling Western Studios.
Through: Bloomberg
Editor’s note: This is a positive move on the part of the workers, so that the company does not need to inform them when they are fired and also gives them some money as compensation when they find another position in the industry or in some other field to hire them.
