Workers launch the United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433, a direct-join, industry-wide video game union. This is a partnership between CWA and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). The union was announced at GDC conference. The UVW-CWA’s mission statement explains: “Our mission is to take back our lives, our labor, and our passion from those who treat us like replaceable cogs; to empower our fellow workers; to link up arms with the laid off, with the freelancer, with the disillusioned contractor, with the disenfranchised and the marginalized, with the workers laboring invisibly to keep this industry afloat ... We are going to create a game industry that works for us, one that nourishes its talent and invests in its future, rather than constantly seeking short-term profits. We are the ones that make the games, so we must be the ones that set the terms of how we work.”