UK staff at Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM have unionised. 

This is the first recognised workplace union in the country's games industry and is is being represented by – you guessed it – the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, who announced the news on their website. There's no word as to how many staff make up this bargaining unit at the moment. 

“Anyone working in the sector can see that the game has been rigged against us for far too long," the chair of IWGB Game Workers Union, Spring McParlin-Jones, said.  

"Now developers at ZA/UM are proving that by coming together as a union we can take back power and shape our workplaces for the better. We need to build an industry where workers can create exciting, meaningful games without sacrificing their social lives, their mental health, or their financial stability. I hope ZA/UM workers’ achievement inspires others working in the games industry to join us in fighting for a fairer, more sustainable sector.”

IWGB Game Workers Union organising officer, Eugenia Peruzzo, added: "Our first IWGB ZA/UM recognition agreement is a proof of the power that game workers have when they come together, trust each other and join our Union. Recognition agreements lay the groundwork for a healthy relationship between the company and workers and rebalance the scale of powers after a few terrible years for the game industry and the redundancies we have seen happening at ZA/UM lately. We are looking forward to many more to come in the future. Rest assured that this is not a one off, but this is an avalanche in the making."