CWA Launches Industry-Wide Video Game Union

On Wednesday, workers across the U.S. and Canada launchedUnited Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433 (UVW-CWA), a direct-join, industry-wide video game union in partnership with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). The union announced its launch at the 2025 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Calif., the world’s largest industry event for video game professionals, which draws tens of thousands of attendees. CWA members attended the launch, helped hand out an introductory zine with information about the union, and spoke on panels during the conference.

“Our mission is to take back our lives, our labor, and our passion from those who treat us like replaceable cogs,” reads UVW-CWA’s mission statement. “We are going to create a game industry that works for us, one that nourishes its talent and invests in its future, rather than constantly seeking short-term profits. We are the ones that make the games, so we must be the ones that set the terms of how we work.” Learn more here!