It's essential that we organize in tech.

You know, it feels impossible now, but I think we're going to look back and see it as inevitable in the future.

That's the work in front of us right now.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Emma Kinema.

Emma is a former worker in tech and in games, and she's a campaign lead with the Communications

Workers of America on the campaign to organize digital employees,

or code. She's also the co-founder of Game Workers Unite. In this episode, we talk about the

organizing that's been going on in the video games industry, particularly in the past few years,

and how game workers have been speaking out more and more about the conditions that they face

in their industry and in

their workplaces. This is a really important conversation because, as we've discussed previously

on the show, there has been a lot of organizing in tech in the past few years. As workers have

come to see that the companies that they believed were representing their values and, you know, the better

world that they wanted to see, were not pursuing those goals in the way that they thought,

but were actually focused on, you know, as many companies do, expanding their profits,

even if that means working with corporations, with government agencies that are doing really

negative things in the world.

And games like tech is an industry where there's very little unionization,

but a growing number of workers are now organizing to try to change that.

And Emma gives us a lot of insight into why they're doing that and how that's been going.

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