Ubisoft Halifax Workers Win Certification Vote, Officially Join CWA Canada!

HALIFAX (Dec. 18, 2025) – Six months to the day after filing for union certification, video game workers at Ubisoft Halifax have been certified to join CWA Canada.

The Nova Scotia Labour Board granted certification today after 74 per cent of staff wall-to-wall voted Yes.

The new unit includes about 60 producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers and development testers. They are joining CWA Canada Local 30111, which includes nearly 120 game workers at Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) in Montreal, and staff at the Montreal Gazette newspaper.

“In an era marked by industry-wide uncertainty, studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability, we want to make clear our commitment to one another and to our craft,” the workers said in a mission statement.

“We believe that creativity flourishes when workers feel secure, supported, and empowered. We are unionizing not in opposition to Ubisoft, but in partnership, with the goal of ensuring our studio remains a beacon of equity, excellence, and innovation.”

CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth welcomed the certification.

“Now let’s get to work negotiating a first collective agreement that recognizes the talent and dedication of these workers!,” she said.

CWA Canada is the country’s only all-media union, representing 6,000 workers at the CBC, The Canadian Press, and newspapers, tech, digital media, video gaming, and other companies coast to coast.