As of late 2018, there was a push for developers to form “unions” to fight back against “harsh work environments.” With a lot of social justice warriors spearheading a lot of these speeches, many were saying that leadership and vision in development and publishing should be restructured. Well, as of now, it looks like the Communications Workers of America (CWA) seek to do just that by unionizing the games industry.

As per latimes.com, there is a new campaign kickstarted by one of the “nation’s largest labor unions” — based in the southern part of California — aiming to change the games industry.

The website notes that the movement dubbed Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE) is a new project of the CWA aimed specifically at unionizing the games industry.

If you don’t know, this initiative came into existence through conversations between the CWA and Game Workers Unite — a place all about diversity and inclusiveness — as well as other organizers across various tech companies.

The website points out that CWA is being backed by more companies such as the Toronto chapter of GWU. However, the CWA isn’t just “big.” As it stands now, the CWA is the parent union of the NewsGuild, which represents workers at the publication site L.A. Times and other major newspapers in the country. And the organization’s lead organizer, Tom Smith, had this to say about CWA’s reach:

“We’ve been watching the amazing organizing of workers across the industry, and workers themselves reached out to us while doing that amazing self-organizing, and said, ‘Can we do this in partnership with the CWA?’”

The website notes that the union declined to specify how much money it was pumping into the new effort. Nevertheless, there are already “two organizers on the payroll” to help “lead the push” with support from dozens of CWA staff members across the country.

Lastly, the website highlights CWA hiring Emma Kinema — a transgender that happens to have co-founded the Game Workers Unite. Here’s what Kinema had to say about the whole thing:

“We believe workers are strongest when they’re together in one shop in one union, so the disciplines can’t be pitted against each other—none of that’s good for the workers. I think in games and tech the wall-to-wall industrial model is the best fit.”