Published , by Donovan Erskine
Published , by Donovan Erskine
Nintendo is now the latest company to be the subject of a worker’s right complaint. An anonymous employee has filed a complaint against the major developer, as well as contracting company Aston Carter, to the National Labor Relations Board. In the complaint, the employee accuses the parties of coercive statements, coercive actions, and concerted activities.
The employee complaint to the NLRB can be found on the organization’s official website, which we learned through Axios’ report. The claim alleges that Nintendo and Aston Carter interfered with a worker’s right to attempt to unionize through concerted activities and coercive actions. Though the filing doesn’t go into specifics, it states that the companies’ activities included retaliation, threats, and surveillance, among other things.
The complaint was filed in Washington state, the US home of Nintendo. This news makes Nintendo the latest video game industry titan to come under fire for allegations of workers’ rights violations, with companies like Activision Blizzard seeing similar issues on a massive scale. As the movement to unionize within the video games industry grows, instances of interference continue to pop up among the major players.
With the nature of the complaint, it’s currently unknown exactly what went down between the anonymous employee, Nintendo, and Aston Carter, but the filing indicates that there were measures taken to thwart the attempt to unionize. That said, we’ll have our ear to the ground for future details as they become available.