The Communications Workers of America, a labor union that represents hundreds of thousands of workers across numerous fields, has announced a new campaign to support unionization efforts within the gaming and technology industries.
That effort, the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE), hopes to organize workers to address ongoing issues within the industries, including discrimination, grueling hours, low pay, and harassment and assault. But workers in these fields must additionally contend with unique problems, such as controversial government contracts as well as problematic or altogether unethical applications for products they help produce