Overview
- Arena developers, which disclosed Monday that a supermajority signed union cards, announced United Wizards of the Coast under the Communications Workers of America.
- Organizers filed an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board as a backstop and set a May 1 deadline for voluntary recognition by Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.
- The proposed unit covers more than 100 staff across engineering, design, art, production, QA, and related roles on the digital card game.
- Workers say they want protections on layoffs and remote work, clear rules on generative AI, limits on mandatory crunch, better career paths, and the right to keep personal creative projects.
- Employees cite mass Hasbro layoffs, shifting return‑to‑office rules that could force moves to the Seattle area, and pressure to adopt AI as catalysts in what would be the first known union effort at Wizards of the Coast.