Rainbow Six: Siege developers go on strike through July to protest mass layoffs and RTO policies at Ubisoft Barcelona

Industrial enactment wrong the Assassin's Creed institution continues

Staff astatine Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege enactment workplace Ubisoft Barcelona are going connected onslaught crossed July successful effect to wide layoffs. They'll beryllium downing tools each Tuesday and Thursday day from June 30th to July 17th, and are calling for extortion against aboriginal "collective dismissals", unneurotic with the reinstatement of antecedently agreed promotion packages.

Earlier this month, Ubisoft declared that they would bash distant with up to 380 roles successful the people of wider restructuring. They announced that Ubisoft Barcelona, specifically, would beryllium chopped down and refocussed connected Rainbow Six, 1 of 3 flagship licenses astatine the bosom of a €1.16 cardinal backing injection from Tencent. The studio's erstwhile projects arsenic a enactment workplace see Rayman Raving Rabbids and Star Trek: Bridge Crew, unneurotic with respective Assassin's Creed games and Tom Clancy's The Division. They've got a recognition connected the forthcoming remake Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, retired successful July.

The strikes are being organised by Spanish national assemblage La Confederación General del Trabajo. They've sent bulletins to Hobby Consolas and different Spanish-language outlets, which person been resurfaced successful the Anglosphere by Insider Gaming.

Aside from lasting up for the radical being fto go, the strike's organisers are said to beryllium calling for the revival of a antecedently agreed interior promotion plan, unneurotic with extortion against corporate dismissal for a minimum of 5 years, the instrumentality of 60/40 hybrid working, and a reappraisal of plans for wage rises and workplace benefits. Some of these demands person a agelong history; unions acting connected behalf of Ubisoft Barcelona filed a suit calling for the repeal of a return-to-office bid backmost successful 2024.

Ubisoft workers person launched respective waves of concern enactment successful effect to caller firm chops and changes. Best of luck to everybody affected by the book-trimming.