As of this morning, each the Dungeons & Dragons crew (which incorporates the employees behind Dungeons & Dragons and D&D Past) and Studio X (which incorporates the tabletop Magic: The Gathering and Duel Masters groups) knowledgeable Wizards of the Coast management of our intent to unionize, and referred to as on the corporate to voluntarily acknowledge our union. We’re calling management to voluntarily acknowledge our union by October thirteenth, and you’ll signal our petition to indicate your help for our efforts.
We’re proud to observe within the footsteps of MTG Area’s personal union, who just lately received their union election, and have labored with the MTG Area union in preparation for at present. Now, we get to share it with you all!
We’re stewards of our video games who should be handled with all of the respect and dignity that entails. And because the groups answerable for a lot of Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast’s earnings, we deserve the next:
- Wages that replicate our work and outlined profession development,
- Job safety towards mounting business instability,
- Dependable and simply accessible healthcare for us and our households,
- Sustainable workloads and practices, together with distant and hybrid working,
- Safety towards the encroachment of AI,
- Full possession of the work we create outdoors of the workplace,
- And extra wants outlined in our particular person models’ targets.
Whereas at present’s announcement is actually thrilling, it’s simply the beginning. To the followers of D&D, Magic, and extra, we ask that you just signal our petition asking for Wizards of the Coast to voluntarily acknowledge our union and have interaction in good-faith bargaining. The group help for MTG Area’s union was important to their monumental victory, and we hope that you just present the identical help for our mission right here at present. You may also present your help on social media and share this assertion along with your communities. The extra eyes on our marketing campaign, the higher!
There’s a lot pleasure from our inside groups for this union, not only for the protections it gives us, however for the possibility to make our lives and the video games we create even higher. In preserving our rights and establishing long-awaited protections for our employees, we hope to make all worlds—each those we create and the one we stay in—higher locations. As soon as acknowledged, we are going to start our bargaining and share extra particulars with you all as they develop.
The video games we create are foundations of the gaming business. Simply as D&D has impressed numerous TTRPGs and Magic sparked the TCG revolution, we hope to catalyze actual change inside our business and construct upon the groundwork laid by different gaming unions, creating an area the place all employees are protected and handled pretty.
The employees of Wizards of the Coast have proven time and time once more that we modify the sport. That is a type of occasions, the place we get to redefine what is feasible and what will be created—and this time, we’re inviting you to affix us! Signal our petition, share it along with your communities, and ask Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro to voluntarily acknowledge our union. Let’s change the gaming world collectively!
From,
The Dungeons & Dragons crew and Studio X
