Unionised French Ubisoft workers put out call for an international strike held by all current employees

This follows an statement made by the 5 unions involved

Last week, Ubisoft announced a large restructure that saw aggregate games cancelled, including the Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time Remake, and much concerningly prospectively enactment layoffs connected the horizon. Now, pursuing an statement made by a radical of organised Ubisoft workers crossed aggregate French unions, a telephone for an planetary onslaught crossed each studios astatine the institution has been enactment out.

The 5 unions successful question dwell of STJV, CGT, Printemps Ecologique, Solidaires Informatique, and CFE-CGC, who done the firstmost enactment retired a connection regarding Ubisoft's caller actions. Namely, the 5 unions are calling for a "massive planetary onslaught by each Ubisoft employees" crossed the 10th, 11th, and 12th of February adjacent month.

This telephone to enactment comes successful effect not conscionable to the caller structuring and prospective layoffs, but due to the fact that of the instrumentality to mandatory in-office work. "These decisions are forcing america to enactment successful bid to support those who support this institution alive," reads the statement. It goes connected to note, "We are promised autonomy for Creative Houses, but what astir the autonomy for employees? Five days of mandatory in-office work: we are treated similar children who request to beryllium supervised, portion our absorption gets distant with lies and breaking the law."

It's besides worthy noting that according to the statement, Ubisoft employees learned astir the large restructure not done a backstage announcement, but astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the nationalist announcement, noting that "none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a fewer days earlier."

A half-day onslaught was held past week, but this was lone done Solidaires Informatique successful France. According to Ubisoft's astir conception connected their website, the workplace presently has astir 17,000 employees, meaning if planetary workers instrumentality portion successful the strike, it could diagnostic thousands of unit members crossed the world. Solidarity to each those involved.