The workers behind Magic: The Gathering Arena are seeking to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
An organization known as United Wizards of the Coast, which is a collection of laborers spanning game designers, programmers, producers, artists, and more that work for the studio behind MTG Arena, posted a letter to Wizards of the Coast (WotC) today announcing it is forming a union in affiliation with the CWA.
The letter states the collective has reached a public supermajority of employees in the cause and is offering WotC a chance to recognize the union, but has also filed for a union election at the National Labor Relations Board. United Wizards of the Coast said it will withdraw the petition if Hasbro agrees to recognize the union by May 1.
The CWA is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States and represents around 700,000 members in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Approximately 600 quality assurance workers at Activision, the publisher behind the Call of Duty series, established the largest certified union in the US video game industry when they joined the CWA in March of 2024.
United Wizards of the Coast listed a number of reasons for seeking unionization headlined by layoff protections, remote work protections, and generative AI protections. The group is seeking better treatment for its members and states that Hasbro and WotC leadership decisions do not align with the values of their employees.
Hasbro, the parent company of WotC, has issued rounds of layoffs in the past few years, with two waves of layoffs in 2023 that cut roughly 2,000 jobs. More recently, around 30 workers, most of the team that was making WotC’s virtual tabletop game Sigil, were let go in March of 2025.
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