Ubisoft Halifax Employees Seek to Join CWA Canada Media Union
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- Workers at Ubisoft Halifax, the developer behind Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Mobile and Assassin’s Creed Rebellion, filed to join CWA Canada.
- The move comes nearly a year after close to 120 game workers at Microsoft’s Bethesda Game Studios in Montreal unionized.
- Nearly 60 of the studio’s staff signed union cards.
Employees of Ubisoft Halifax, the mobile game developer behind Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Mobile and Assassin’s Creed Rebellion, filed to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Canada, the country’s oldest media union, as was announced on June 18, 2025.
The move comes nearly a year after close to 120 game workers at Microsoft’s Bethesda Game Studios in Montreal unionized.
According to CWA Canada’s statement, nearly 60 of the studio’s staff signed union cards. In 2021, Ubisoft Halifax had grown to over 70 employees, according to Ubisoft’s data, but the exact number of workers remained unknown at the time of writing, especially considering the company’s current focus on restructuring and recent layoffs.
“With no end in sight to the industry-wide turbulence that sees studios shutter on releasing games fans love, it is up to us, the workers, to organize and demand a say in our labour, art and future,” stated Thomas Gillis, senior server programmer from Ubisoft Halifax.
Earlier this year, the first-ever North American direct-join and industry-wide video game workers union was launched at the 2025 Game Developers Conference in partnership with CWA.
