SEGA of America employees officially forms the largest union of its kind in the United States
With a result of 91 to 26, the Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA, or AEGIS, has won its organizing election.
The guild, representing around 200 employees at SEGA of America's office in Irvine, California, now becomes the largest multi-department video game union in the United States.
AEGIS intends to contact the publisher for a bargaining agreement.
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Our leader who has been acting as the Great Seal and dead for two years just sent us this - Mod Velvet
*this isn’t an edit or a screenshot, this is 3D fanart*
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The AEGIS-CWA organisation, which has been campaigning for establishing a formal workers' union at SEGA of America, has won its union election! That means SOA is now officially unionized!
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SEGA of America accused of mass layoff threats and improper bargaining in new labour complaint
An unfair labour practice complaint has been filed by the Communications Workers of America against Sonic the Hedgehog publisher SEGA of America amid allegations of improper bargaining with its union, the Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA.
The complaint alleged that SEGA threatened to outsource the jobs of union workers to their Japanese and European departments, in a described "phase out" of all temporary workers at the publisher's Irvine, California office.
The proposal was tendered directly to the employees in a compulsory company meeting, as opposed to bargaining with the guild, potentially in violation of U.S. labour laws.
The layoffs is reportedly expected to eliminate around 80 positions, which is around 40 percent of the newly-formed union. The guild is largely comprised of workers from the departments of QA and localization.
"SEGA will not be allowed to get away with this unlawful behaviour," said SEGA quality assurance tester Elise Willacker in a statement to Kotaku.
"We call on the company to make all temporary employees permanent and return to the bargaining table in good faith. There is no other just alternative," said Willacker.
The complaint will go to the U.S. National Labour Relations Board, but action may not be taken in time before the layoffs occur.
SEGA has not responded to media requests for comment.
(files contributed by MC for the Tails' Channel newsfeed.)
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