Ubisoft introduced Wednesday it should shut its studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia — two weeks after 74% of its employees voted to unionize.This implies shedding the 71 folks on the studio, reviews the gaming information web site Aftermath:
[Communications Workers of America’s Canadian affiliate, CWA Canada] mentioned in a press release to Aftermath the union will “pursue each authorized recourse to make sure that the rights of those staff are revered and never infringed in any method.” The union mentioned in a information launch that it is unlawful in Canada for firms to shut companies due to unionization. That is not essentially what occurred right here, in line with the information launch, however the union is “demanding info from Ubisoft in regards to the motive for the sudden determination to shut.” “We shall be searching for Ubisoft to indicate us that this had nothing to do with the staff becoming a member of a union,” former Ubisoft Halifax programmer and bargaining committee member Jon Huffman mentioned in a press release. “The employees, their households, the folks of Nova Scotia, and all of us who love video video games made in Canada, deserve nothing much less….”Earlier than becoming a member of Ubisoft, the studio was finest identified for its work on the Rocksmith franchise; underneath Ubisoft, it targeted squarely on cellular video games. Ubisoft Halifax was shortly faraway from the Ubisoft web site on Wednesday…
