Despite increasing fluctuation, the salary increases proposed by management for two years are “well below inflation,” complain the unions on France Culture.
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We have learned that employees of Ubisoft, the largest French video game studio, have been called to strike on Wednesday, February 14th France culture from a union source. Three unions, Solidaire Informatique, STJV (Video Game Workers Union) and the FIECI CFE-CGC Federation, are demanding a wage increase in line with inflation.
The trade union organizations assume that they were not heard at the last annual negotiations. “It seemed that we were ready to negotiate, but that a decision had already been more or less made.”, regrets at the microphone of France Culture Pierre-Étienne Marx, delegate of the union of video game workers at Ubisoft. The union representative therefore denounces an inadequate salary increase: “For the second year in a row we have a proposed increase that is well below inflation.” and myself “lower [au pourcentage] from last year”, he claims. The unions point out that the French video game giant still achieved an increase in sales in the first half of the year.
“A lot of people are there because they have passion,” but there is a risk that it will disappear
In view of this situation, the three unions are calling on all Ubisoft employees to hold a mobilization day on Wednesday. And this date was not chosen by chance, explains Pierre-Étienne Marx. “It’s a little bit symbolic because it’s a day associated with passion, and in video games a lot of people are there because of passion.”, emphasizes the trade unionist. He also believes that employees certainly work out of passion “often agree to receive salaries that are easily 10 to 20% lower than what they could earn in other industries with a degree of this type.”
But Pierre-Étienne Marx fears that this passion for the profession will gradually disappear “Because we’re in a large company that orders things that aren’t necessarily tied to people’s creative expectations.”and due to “Treatment of employees, because obviously we can’t even compensate for our loss of salary due to inflation.”
