{"id":510,"date":"2026-08-21T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/?p=510"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:29:49","slug":"cwaers-get-creative-to-help-power-up-hardship-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/cwaers-get-creative-to-help-power-up-hardship-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"CWAers Get Creative To Help Power Up Hardship Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, members of the United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA Local 9433) launched a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uvw-cwa.org\/hardship-fund-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Worker Hardship Fund<\/a>&nbsp;to assist union siblings impacted by video game industry layoffs both in the U.S. and in Canada. UVW-CWA members turned to indie video game studio Necrosoft Games for a creative way to help raise money for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 100 Necrosoft video game producers, many of them small shops of just a few programmers, agreed to offer their games, 127 of them, in a bundle worth over a thousand dollars at the low price of only a $10 donation. Supporters flocked to the deal and raised an astounding $252,446, proving that class solidarity can achieve stunning results. Over 18,000 customers, with an average contribution of just $13.58, met and exceeded the original goal of $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/b\/3802\/game-industry-hardship-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for more information about the Necrosoft Games fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, members of the United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA Local 9433) launched a&nbsp;Game Worker Hardship Fund&nbsp;to assist union siblings impacted by video game industry layoffs both in the U.S. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"external_permalink":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cwa"],"external_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}