The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees or CODE-CWA is a project launched by the
Communications Workers of America
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 loc ...
to unionize tech and video game workers in January 2020.
It sprung out of conversations with
Game Workers Unite
Game Workers Unite is a worker-run, labor rights group seeking to organize the video game industry. Founded during events surrounding the March 2018 Game Developers Conference, the flat organization has grown to over a thousand members across ...
(GWU) and employed at least two full time staff, including GWU co-founder
Emma Kinema
Emma Kinema is an American labor organizer and the senior campaign lead of CODE-CWA, the Communication Workers of America's Campaign to Organize Digital Employees. In the late 2010s, while working as a quality assurance tester, Kinema voluntee ...
and veteran
SEIU
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: healthcare (over half of members ...
organizer Wes McEnany.
In 2022,
Jessica Gonzalez
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joined, a former Activision Blizzard QA tester.
CODE-CWA campaigns have been launched at a range of workplaces such as major multinational tech companies, small
startups
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, video game studios, media companies,
AAA game
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publishers,
worker co-operatives, and
table-top game companies. As of August 2022, CODE-CWA has organized over 3000 union members in various sub-industries of the tech sector across over 25 bargaining units in the last two years of organizing.
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Campaigns
See also
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Alphabet Workers Union
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), also informally referred to as the Google Union, is a trade union of workers employed at Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, with a membership of over 800, in a company with 130,000 employees, not including temps, ...
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Game Workers Unite
Game Workers Unite is a worker-run, labor rights group seeking to organize the video game industry. Founded during events surrounding the March 2018 Game Developers Conference, the flat organization has grown to over a thousand members across ...
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Google worker organization
Tensions between the multinational technology company Google and its workers escalated in 2018 and 2019 as staff protested company decisions on a censored search engine for China, a military drone artificial intelligence, and internal sexual ...
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Tech unions in the United States
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Tech Workers Coalition
The Tech Workers Coalition is a labor rights group seeking to organize the tech industry.
History
The group was founded between cafeteria worker and labor organizer Rachel Melendes and engineer Matt Schaefer. Their first meetings began in ...
References
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Tech sector trade unions
Communications Workers of America