Project Update: Rebrand (Also an Evolving Strike at ZeniMax)

A News Recap & Updates on where this whole thing is going

Nov 21, 2024

Hello all, welcome back. This week’s newsletter is going to be a little different. We are going to kick off with a PSA, then take a look at the most important things happening in labor & gaming right now.

Due to some turbulence in my personal life, this newsletter is long overdue. Despite that, I somehow feel more motivated than ever to produce union related reporting and analysis (probably the Prozac speaking), and I think coverage and explanation of what is happening in the labor organizing world will be more important than ever going forward.

Taking a beat to cover some housekeeping;

For starters, we are renaming this newsletter unionquest. Same newsletter you love, with more content and social channels to boot.
Speaking of which, we’re launching Twitter and Bluesky accounts in order to get union-related messaging out faster & wider.
We have a large pipeline of articles incoming, which I am very excited about. Here is said pipeline for those who are interested;
1. An Interview with Don McGowan, former CLO at Bungie & Pokémon Company
2. An Interview with a key union organizer from Avalanche Games in Sweden
3. An explainer on how the Trump administration is going to try and gut the right to organize in 2025
4. A current database of all the games you can buy that were made by union labor

If you want to help support this kind of work, you can go over to the Patreon page and join as a patron. There are currently no unique benefits to becoming a patron, though that is something I plan on adding in 2025. It will most likely be full interview transcripts and discussions on games that have labor as major themes.

And yes, if any of you were wondering, I am looking into building a website so that we can move off of Substack.

Thank you for sitting through the PSA, now we will get back to our regular programming.

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The News Recap Oct and Early Nov 2024

While I work on the more labor-intensive articles in the pipeline, I’ve gathered the headlines I think to be the most important spanning the last couple of months so that you all can keep up to date on what is happening.

The key takeaways are as follows;

ZeniMax Union Goes on Strike Over Outsourcing and Remote Work