picture: GameStop / Jazplus / Kelly Toys Holdings / Kotaku / Ethan Miller (Getty Images) As my box Last week, retail giant GameStop reported increasingly to fill its retail stores with weird, random junk instead of, well, video games. Dissatisfied GameStop employees are grumbling online about the massive quantities of toys the warehouses are shipping. ...
picture: Nintendo A new labor complaint has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board against Nintendo and contracting agency Aston Carter. The second complaint this year accuses Mario publishers of interfering in “concerted activities” by workers, including possible retaliation and coercion. It comes months later Dozens of current and former employees complained about exploitative ...
photo: Christian Peterson (Getty Images) The CEO of Driving me crazy Manufacturer Electronic Arts is expected to rake in $19.8 million in total compensation for his company’s strong performance in 2021. That’s about half of what it was for 2020 after EA’s board cracked down on exorbitant bonuses in the face of shareholder backlash, but ...
photo: Certain affinity As much of the United States grows increasingly hostile to transgender people and abortion rights, a Texas games studio CEO pledges to help employees who want to leave the state if they do (h/t GamesIndustry.biz). “Today, as a demonstration of our company values, I make this commitment to you,” wrote Max Hoberman, ...
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Crow Software’s Quality assurance workers vote on unions. The NLRB ruled Friday (April 22) that the 21-member team will be able to vote on whether to unionize, Polygon reported.Raven Software parent company Activision Blizzard An attempt to challenge QA workers’ attempts to unionize earlier this year, hoping ...
Image: Nintendo Earlier this week it emerged that Nintendo of America and recruitment company Aston Carter have been named in a workers’ rights complaint; the complaint alleges actions such as ‘discharge’ from employment and ‘coercive statements’. Nintendo of America issued a response saying that the worker in question was “a contractor who was previously terminated ...
Ahead of a fifth of all records, Capcom Japan rewards its employees with a 30 percent increase. A new bonus and organization system is also present. Some would have kept it all to themselves, but Capcom Japan doesn’t eat this bread. Thanks to its strong growth (for 9 years) and its record profits (for 5 ...
Picture: Nintendo At the best of times, tax returns are absolutely dreadful. Anyone who conducts their own business — whether it be as a full time gig or some freelance on the side — knows just how soul-destroying it can be to fill in the seemingly endless list of forms, with the only end result ...
Related News There aren’t a few issues that Apple has on its hands, as is the case with AirTags, so now its store employees have to look for alternatives to be able to keep discussions secret to stay organized and thus follow the trail left by the struggle and victory carried out by them in ...
Days after Raven Software’s QA staff announced their intention to organize into the Communication Workers of America (CWA), Activision notified workers Monday that the department would be reorganized. The company announced the news on the day Raven’s QA staff returned to work after a week-long strike. “In November, we started converting our temporary workers [full-time ...
