The union contract for SEGA workers is approved

For some years now there has been talk about how in certain video game companies there are certain injustices, including overtime that wears out the patience of employees, as well as other working conditions that go far beyond the normal in difference to other items. For this reason, work has been done to create unions to have fairer rules within the environment, and now the verdict regarding SEGA has been announced, who have now closed the contract that they have been working on with care.

Workers in the American part of this company, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have become the first employees of a North American video game company to ratify a union contract, a move that could accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for its instability among its workforce. It covers about 150 people in marketing and other departments at the division's Southern California offices.

Workers will reportedly receive minimum annual wage increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026, as well as a host of other benefits, he said in an interview. Catalina Brennan-Gatica, representative of the Communications Workers of America. This has been slow to come to North America, but has gained momentum in recent years as employees have sought contracts at studios like Activision Blizzard and ZeniMaxboth owned by Microsoft.

The approval of the contract can make more parts of the industry act the same, because let us remember that Raven Softwarepart of Activision, at the time formed its union, but it would take a long time for the parent company to recognize them as one and accept the formation without opposing it in some way. The best thing is that this contract requires that SEGA Provide advance notice of layoffs and offer a minimum of two weeks' severance pay to affected employees, with a limit of eight weeks.

This is also a step after what the company has done in those months by letting hundreds of people go and selling Western studios.

Via: Bloomberg

Editor's note: It is a positive step on the part of the workers, so that the company does not need to notify them when they are going to be fired and also give them some money as compensation while they find another position in the industry or another field that will hire them.