Overview

• Studio management has formally acknowledged the union and agreed to meet regularly with elected workplace representatives to address staff matters.
• Organizers say the agreement establishes a model for representation in the UK games sector and marks the industry's first recognized workplace union.
• Spring McParlin-Jones of the Game Workers Union said the move shows developers can take back power to improve working conditions.
• IWGB organizer Eugenia Peruzzo described the recognition as evidence of workers’ leverage and indicated further recognition efforts are planned.
• ZA/UM, best known for Disco Elysium and employing roughly 100 people worldwide, has faced layoffs, project cancellations, and public disputes since 2019.