Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have officially ratified their union contract, as reported by Bloomberg. This makes it one of the first major North American video-game companies to take this step, which could bode well for future organized labor pushes in the industry. The contract was ratified after workers overwhelmingly voted to unionize last year. It covers around 150 people working in various departments throughout the company, including brand marketing,...
This move positions it among the pioneering major video-game companies in North America to embrace unionization, potentially setting a precedent for similar initiatives within the industry.
The battle to unionize a Chattanooga auto plant is heating up. The New York Times reports: “Volkswagen employees in Tennessee who are hoping to join the United Automobile Workers asked a federal agency on Monday to hold an election, a key step toward the union’s longtime goal of organizing nonunion factories across the South. With… Source
Unifor Local 444 workers at Avancez voted 90 per cent in favour of approving a new three-year contract with the company Thursday. Unifor had announced the tentative agreement Thursday morning and the plant’s 30 workers voted Thursday afternoon on the deal. Avancez is a feeder plant for Stellantis’s Windsor Assembly Plant. The plant supplies tires […]
Volkswagen workers at a Chattanooga, Tenn., plant will hold a union election between April 17 and 19, United Auto Workers announced on Monday. The landmark vote could make the VW facility the UAW’s first major win since a strike led to a new contract for “Big Three” workers last year, as the union eyes expansion
Three-year deal reached with 140 workers represented by SEIU/1199.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers have ratified a new contract with 34 hotels after repeated strikes since the summer. Their union says they will keep fighting for deals with more than two dozen others. Unite Here Local 11 announced Monday that workers won higher pay
Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers have ratified a new contract with 34 hotels after repeated strikes since the summer
Tennessee plant is currently the only Volkswagen plant globally without union representation, according to the UAW Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, filed a petition to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Monday after a supermajority of workers at the plant signed union authorization cards.It is the first union election filing for the union since it launched a massive campaign aimed at organizing 150,000 workers at non-unionized auto plants in the US in the wake of securing...