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It has been made official one day before the big event in which Nacon were going to expand the existing information about the driving title
Kylotonn, also known as KT Racing, have announced that They will go on strike due to problems with Nacon in relation to the development of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown. This title has been announced for three years now and its development seems to have gone through many delicate moments, which may include delays and cancellations of the versions for the previous generation of consoles.
The official declaration that this strike is going to occur It has been known through the official website of the Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo (Union of Video Game Workers), which, as its name indicates, is a union that includes workers in the video game industry in France, a country in which other incidents were already occurring that its president had linked to the video game.
🇬🇧 We are relaying the demands from workers at @kylotonn_gameson strike today:
— Syndicat des Travailleurs·ses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv_fr) July 11, 2023
Problems arise at full speed for Nacon due to the Kylotonn workers’ strike.
In this letter they detail the working conditions under the Nacon umbrella, where they declare that, due to the way it operates with respect to the studies it acquires, the management of these studios and the parent company are passing the buck regarding the workers’ demands without resolving them.
The only time in which Kylotonn workers were able to contact any official from their parent company was yesterday, the 11th, during a presentation of the Nacon 2022-23 balance sheet. Taking advantage of this presentation They requested more resources from Laurent Honoret, the company’s number two. Honoret refused his requests and said that it was the management of his own studio who had to negotiate the conditions.
The Kylotonn board had declared that the lack of negotiation was due to Nacon’s refusal, so Laurent Honoret’s statement destroyed their excuses. Because of this, workers They officially decided to go on strike and left the room. but not before presenting a series of demands:
- Negotiation of a teleworking policy with unions
- Negotiating minimum wages and compensation with union organizations, instead of deciding them unilaterally by management, which disadvantages a large proportion of workers
- Apply concrete measures to end the toxic and authoritarian management style that threatens the mental health and union of workers
- Negotiation of processes to adjust working conditions, which are currently negotiated on a case-by-case basis with great difficulties
- Opening of annual negotiations with unions for any issue of their claims
- Systematic information and consultation of the Social and Economic Committee on matters within its scope
- Total transparency of the negotiations between both companies to find the deadlock in the negotiations, including workers’ representatives in these negotiations
- The same level of transparency in negotiations with other studios in the group
- Immediate salary increases throughout the Nacon business group at least equivalent to those that occur in Kylotonn after the renegotiation.
Although this It is not affecting the news presentation event of Test Drive Unlimited, which started at 7:00 p.m. and is developing normally, shifts the focus of attention from the announcements they are offering to the demands of the workers and the management problems present in Nacon, who have already been protagonists of other controversies of this nature previously.
In addition to the problems due to his management, we cannot forget that Nacon was the distributor of the Gollum video game, which has been battered by critics and has ended up causing the cessation of game development by Daedalic Entertainment, the studio that created it. had developed.
