{"id":190166,"date":"2025-11-14T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190166"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:31:06","slug":"after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190166","title":{"rendered":"After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA\/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers&#8217; Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the workers at ZA\/UM all agree that we have something unique at the studio that we want to preserve for years to come.&#8221; Marketing manager Poppy Ingham handles social and communications for the studio behind politics-laden RPG Disco Elysium. Today, though, she&#8217;s speaking on behalf of the ZA\/UM Workers&#8217; Alliance \u2013 a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-zaum-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the workers at ZA\/UM all agree that we have something unique at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance.jpg",1844,1038,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-1536x865.jpg",1536,865,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance.jpg",1844,1038,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190166-after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-za-um-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}