DoomsdaysCW<p>There has been a LOT of human job losses due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GameDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDevelopment</span></a> industry. Good to see folks taking a stand!</p><p>Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ActivisionBlizzard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivisionBlizzard</span></a>'s newly unionised employees want from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a></p><p>A big development.</p><p>By Connor Makar, Published on Aug. 22, 2025 </p><p>Excerpt: "[Scott Alsworth from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWGB</span></a> Union] credits the increase in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unionisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unionisation</span></a> efforts to several factors: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnologicalDisplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnologicalDisplacement</span></a> (especially poignant with the push for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>), a greater number of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a> people joining the video game industry who bring a greater awareness of unionisation, and a response to the state of the industry as a whole." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/pay-rises-ai-regulation-and-layoff-protection-what-activision-blizzards-newly-unionised-employees-want-from-microsoft" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurogamer.net/pay-rises-ai-reg</span><span class="invisible">ulation-and-layoff-protection-what-activision-blizzards-newly-unionised-employees-want-from-microsoft</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unionise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unionise</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unionize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unionize</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GameDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AISucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AISucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JobDisplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobDisplacement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanJobs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VideoGamingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGamingNews</span></a></p>