This is the first organizing effort at Wizards of the Coast, a Hasbro Subsidiary and popular Digital and Tabletop Studio known for developing Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. The United Wizards of the Coast-Communications Workers of America (UWOTC-CWA) Bargaining Unit would cover Game Designers, Programmers, Producers, Artists and other Workers who are critical to the Studio’s success. Staff Members are requesting voluntary recognition from management so they can begin bargaining a contract that will ensure they can entertain fans for years to come. “At Wizards, we’re organizing for a say in layoffs, accountability that runs up and down the chain and a living wage that actually lets people build a life. I’m hopeful about what we can build here and being clear-eyed about why it’s necessary,” UWOTC-CWA Member Damien Wilson, a Senior Software Development Engineer, said. “This isn’t just something that affects Wizards of the Coast, it’s how most American workplaces are set up - investor profit above all, even if it hurts those behind the products we all know and love. Unions are the missing counterweight to protect our craft.”

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