Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo

What Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo does

STJV (Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo) is a French non-profit labor union founded in 2017 and headquartered at 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, that represents workers across the French video game industry. The union organizes video game developers, publishers, freelancers, and private-school video game teachers, providing collective bargaining, legal support, strike coordination, and labor-rights advocacy. STJV operates through embedded union sections at individual studios (including Ubisoft, Quantic Dream, Don't Nod, Amplitude, and Arkane) and has secured court-recognized representation status, won harassment and labor-law cases before French tribunals (including co-plaintiff role in the Ubisoft executives harassment trial), and negotiated improved redundancy packages such as a €13,000 floor at Don't Nod.

The union's go-to-market is community-led and event-driven: it recruits members through the website, social channels (Mastodon, Bluesky, Instagram), and direct outreach, then mobilizes members through national strike calls (May 27, June 25, October 2, 2026), the February 13, 2025 GG25 general strike that mobilized roughly 2,000 workers (~20% of the French sector), and picket lines at individual studios. STJV has no commercial product or technology platform; its core "deliverables" are legal representation, an internal strike fund, education and rights-guides content, and a solidarity network across studios.

The business model is non-commercial: STJV is funded by recurring membership dues from workers and voluntary donations through HelloAsso and bank transfer, with a portion of dues allocated to the strike fund. It is collectively governed by its members, takes no venture or institutional investment, and explicitly positions itself in opposition to employer and publisher interests. It has expanded its footprint through international coalition-building with IWGB Game Workers, Uni Global, Uni Europa, the Game Workers Coalition, Solidaires Informatique, and CGT/CCOO at Ubisoft Barcelona, and through parliamentary engagement with the Assemblée Nationale and Sénat.

Name

Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo

Legal name

Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo

Website

https://stjv.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

STJV is a French non-profit labor union founded in 2017 that represents video game industry workers through collective bargaining, legal advocacy, strike coordination, and union sections at major studios, funded by membership dues and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership dues: STJV is funded through membership dues paid by union members working in the video game industry. A portion of these dues is allocated to the internal strike fund for worker mobilization.
2. Donations: The union accepts public donations through HelloAsso platform and direct bank transfers. Donations support the strike fund used to compensate workers participating in strike actions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

STJV is a French labor union for video game industry workers that provides collective representation, legal support, strike coordination, and labor rights advocacy. It organizes workplace-level union sections at studios across France and is funded by member dues and public donations rather than commercial pricing. The union conducts national strike calls, files legal action in labor courts, and engages in cross-border coalition work with international game worker unions.

Product overview

STJV is a trade union for video game industry workers in France. The organization provides union membership services, labor rights advocacy, strike coordination, legal resources, industry surveys, and educational guides for workers. It does not offer technology products or software services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Union Membership
• Strike Fund

Quantifiable outcome

• Won professional recognition status for Don’t Nod workers (second video game company after Amplitude)
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• CGT andCCOO (Ubisoft Barcelona)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Spanish trade unions CGT andCCOO representing workers at Ubisoft Barcelona, whose layoff plan STJV publicly supports and amplifies, showing cross-border worker solidarity.
• IWGB Game WorkerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025UK-based video game workers union that partnered with STJV to organize a European summit for video game unions at end of 2025, resulting in a joint declaration and coordinated action plan across Western Europe.
• Six Western European Video Game UnionscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025Six video game unions across Western Europe signed joint declaration and action plan following European summit organized with STJV and IWGB Game Workers, implementing coordinated actions in 2026.
• Uni Global and Uni EuropacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025International and European trade union confederations with which STJV actively participates in activities and congresses to present its structure and advocate for clear union positions.
• Game Workers Coalition (GWC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025International video game unions network operating across multiple continents, with continued growth under STJV's active participation.
• Solidaires InformatiquemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025French IT sector union that collaborated with STJV as plaintiff in the Ubisoft executives trial (Serge Hascoët, Thomas François, Guillaume Patrux) for sexual and moral harassment charges.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IG Metall: Germany's largest industrial union with growing footprint in tech and digital creative workers. Comparable as a powerful EU neighbor union whose sector coverage increasingly overlaps with video game development employment.
• Uni Global Union: Global union federation covering service and creative sectors with which STJV is actively engaged. Comparable as the international umbrella STJV participates in to extend reach beyond France into publisher-level corporate campaigns.
• CGT (Confédération générale du travail): One of France's largest general labor confederations with deep organizing infrastructure in private industry. Comparable as a French union actor STJV competes or coordinates with for worker affiliation in the same companies.
• ver.di (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft): Germany's largest services-sector union covering media, IT, and creative workers. Comparable as a large EU neighbor union with potential to organize German-based video game workers in the same Western European coordination framework.
• CFDT (Confédération française démocratique du travail): Major French labor confederation with significant private-sector membership. Comparable as an established national union force operating in the same French regulatory environment as STJV.
• FO (Force ouvrière): Third major French labor confederation with broad private-sector representation. Comparable as an incumbent French union ecosystem player negotiating alongside STJV in CSE processes at major studios.

Direct peers

• Game Workers Alliance: US union formed by Activision Blizzard QA workers after the 2021 walkout, now affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. Closest direct national peer in mission: representing private-sector video game workers against publisher labor practices.
• Solidaires Informatique: French IT-sector union that joined STJV as co-plaintiff in the Ubisoft executives harassment trial (Hascoët, François, Patrux). Direct peer in sector (IT/tech workers) and in French labor-court advocacy tactics.
• IWGB Game Workers: UK-based union branch organizing video game workers, a confirmed STJV strategic partner that co-organized the 2025 European video game union summit. Direct peer in mission, sector, and grassroots digital organizing model.
• Game Workers Coalition: International network of video game worker organizations that STJV is publicly partnering with. Direct peer as an industry-specific worker coalition with overlapping mission on working conditions, crunch, and layoff defense.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/stjv_fr
• Xx.com/stjv_fr
• Facebookfacebook.com/stjvfr

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