Workers at Ubisoft Halifax, which is largely known for its efforts in the mobile space, have voted to unionize, thus creating the French publisher’s first North American union.
According to Canadian news platform CTV News, sixty-one employees at Ubisoft’s Nova Scotia-based Halifax branch will now be part of a union, and lead programmer Jon Huffman told the publication that “73.8 percent of employees” voted in favor of unionization.
Huffman described the vote as a “clear response from the membership” and a “huge relief”, also claiming that the move has “started a conversation” among other branches of Ubisoft and that colleagues of his have “reached out to say [the Halifax union] is a huge surprise”.
The certification process for Ubisoft’s Halifax union began last year, but the vote couldn’t be officially counted until Ubisoft responded, according to CTV News.
The publication goes on to say that Ubisoft dropped the challenges it had for the Halifax union after “a few hearings”. Employees from European Ubisoft unions, particularly those based in France, have apparently given their support to Huffman and the Halifax arm.
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