The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees or CODE-CWA is a project launched by the

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to unionize tech and video game workers in January 2020. It sprung out of conversations with Game Workers Unite (GWU) and employed at least two full time staff, including GWU co-founder Emma Kinema and veteran

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organizer Wes McEnany. In 2022,

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joined, a former Activision Blizzard QA tester. CODE-CWA campaigns have been launched at a range of workplaces such as major multinational tech companies, small

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, video game studios, media companies,

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publishers, worker co-operatives, and

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companies. As of August 2022, CODE-CWA has organized over 3000 union members in various sub-industries of the tech sector across over 25 bargaining units in the last two years of organizing. __TOC__

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:CWA Trade unions in the United States worker organization * Labor relations in the United States Tech sector trade unions Communications Workers of America

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