PARIS (Reuters) – Several unions at Ubisoft France maintained their call for a strike for a period of three days from October 15, after a meeting on Tuesday afternoon with the local management of the main French video game creator, said -they told Reuters.
The Union of Video Game Workers (STJV), Solidaires Informatique, the CFE-CGC Fieci, the CGT and Printemps Ecologues called at the end of September for a work stoppage to protest against the decision of the management of Ubisoft France to require employees to work face-to-face at least three days a week.
The unions denounced a decision that did not take into account the personal constraints or places of residence of employees.
Tuesday’s meeting with the management of the owner of the Rabbids or Assassin’s Creed licenses did not make it possible to move forward on this issue, according to the unions interviewed.
Speaking to Reuters, a representative of the CFE-CGC Fieci said “he was surprised by the fact that this meeting focused on the quality of social dialogue, and did not present any argument that would change anything about the strike declaration.”
Several union members also regretted to Reuters the timing chosen for the departure of Ubisoft’s director of social relations in France, Damien Cixous, announced internally at the beginning of October and planned for the end of the month, in a tense context.
Negotiations on the teleworking agreement are due to begin on Thursday, while mandatory annual wage negotiations are due to begin before the end of the month, two union sources told Reuters.
The French video game manufacturer has recently faced difficulties, among other things due to the underperformance of sales of new games, as well as the delay in the release of its new opus of the famous title “Assassin’s Creed”, announced in september.
Since the start of the year, Ubisoft shares have lost 42.8%.
Contacted, the management of Ubisoft France did not react immediately.
(Reporting by Florence Loève, editing by Blandine Hénault)
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