PARIS (Reuters) – Several unions called on Ubisoft’s French employees on Thursday for a three-day strike starting October 15 to protest against a return to face-to-face work of at least three days per week.
The video game workers’ union (STJV), Solidaires Informatique and the CFE-CGC Fieci oppose the decision taken by the management of the video game creator, with whom dialogue has already been tense in recent months.
“After more than five years of working effectively in the current framework of teleworking, many of our colleagues have built or rebuilt their lives and cannot simply return to previous conditions,” estimates the STJV in a press release published Thursday, denouncing “a decision arbitrary” of management.
This announcement from the unions comes in a troubled context for the group that invented “Assassin’s Creed” and “Rabbids”, whose stock lost around 18% of its value on Thursday. Ubisoft is penalized by the three-month postponement of the release of its new game Assassin’s Creed as well as the downward revision of its objectives.
On Thursday, Reuters also published a letter from one of its shareholders, the activist fund AJ Investments, which advocates a sale of Ubisoft and says it is supported by 10% of shareholders.
(Writing by Florence Loève, edited by Kate Entringer)
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