At the very least 1,200 Ubisoft builders have gone on strike throughout Paris and Milan in response to the corporate’s current large cutbacks and alter of coverage in direction of remote-working. That’s the determine given for yesterday’s bout of strike motion by Marc Rutschlé, Ubisoft Paris staffer and a consultant of the union Solidaires Informatique, in a press release to the socialist agitators of GamesIndustry.biz.
The first inspiration for this week’s strike is Ubisoft’s cancellation or closure of a number of video games and studios, with complete job losses nonetheless to be confirmed however prone to be within the lots of. The strikers are additionally pissed off about delayed or insufficient pay rises, along with Ubisoft’s new ban on distant or hybrid working (staff will get a yearly allowance of homeworking days as a substitute). Generally, they incline to the assumption that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is a giant smelly bumface who must be searching for a brand new job.
“At this stage, it appears clear to us that Yves Guillemot has no information or understanding of his firm or its staff,” Rutschlé mentioned, in feedback shared as soon as once more with the raving firebrands of GamesIndustry.biz. “The corporate is continuous its price discount and layoff plan. Our groups are already working beneath stress, usually understaffed. After a number of years with out pay rises (or very small will increase), we perceive that after once more, staff is not going to obtain a increase this 12 months.”
The strike is operating for 3 days from tenth to twelfth February. It follows a short-notice half-day strike on 22st January, the day after Ubisoft introduced its newest spherical of restructuring. Solidaires Informatique and fellow unions STJV, CGT, Printemps Ecologique, and CFE-CGC put out a global name for motion in direction of the tip of final month, however Rutschlé says that to date, many of the strike motion has taken place in France.
Godspeed, UbiStrikers! As we prefer to say throughout the Channel, you possibly can’t make an omelette with out breaking a couple of Guillemot eggs.
