You Mess With the Bull, You Get the Horns

2 Years ago, Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast laid off about 20% of their staff. Now they are begging their employees not to unionize. > Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, has a problem—no, not its cancelled video games. Its workers would like to unionise, and I'm just starting to get the sense that it really doesn't want that to happen. Just a smidge. A tiny inkling. > > Late last month, WoTC employees from the Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their intention to form a union, giving the company until May 1 to recognise it voluntarily. Neither Hasbro nor Wizards of the Coast did so. > > The motion to form a union now proceeds to a vote via the National Labor Relations Board, which would allow the union to form whether Hasbro/WoTC like it or not. In order to dissuade the union from forming, Wizards of the Coast has, workers claim, resorted to daily emails and scare tactics. They have hired union busters as well, Fisher Phillips, and are almost certainly targeting labor organizers among their employees. As an FYI, it doesn't help that the layoffs were largely indiscriminate, hitting some of WOTC's most successful projects.