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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36712639

Ubisoft's first North American union, located at their Halifax, Nova Scotia studio, was certified on December 18th, 2025. Now, not even a full 30 days later, Ubisoft Halifax is closing.

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[–] ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

How convenient this decision was supposedly made prior to the decision to unionize and is related to only financial issues.

I bet they are always discussing what studios to cut or downsize in case of "economic downturns" or "failing to meet quarterly projections" so they can't be accused of union-busting or retaliation.

I think we need to learn more about the union movement in Canada and US. People fought and died over these rights. Companies and governments forgot unions were the agreement we made to not drag their asses out in the streets and beat their asses.

It would be good for those in power to remember this compromise, because we are getting ripe for another wave of work reform.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I guess I will continue to not buy their games. I'm lucky they make it so easy by making so many bad games.

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

B-b-but I thought it wasn't about unions...

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 4 days ago

It's about sensitive company knowledge!! such as uh..., the fact that we're union busters

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Could workers not form a 'dark union', gathering members from as many different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front -- gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.

The huge difficulty would be keeping the membership drive truly 'dark' until it was large enough to pull off.

[–] foodvacuum@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Stopped buying Ubisoft games for years. Don't even play the ones I already have. It's been a crappy company since at least Assassin's Creed 2 single player always online pioneering

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