Nintendo of America is being accused of a situation involving an unnamed worker who has claimed that the company, along with global hiring firm Aston Carter, violated their legally protected right to unionize. As a result of this, a filing was made with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday.
The staffer alleges that Nintendo of America and Aston Carter participated in “concerted activities” and made “coercive actions”, interfering with their legally protected right to organize. Axios reports that “the allegations were likely to include claims of surveillance, threats, retaliation and either a layoff or refusal to hire.”
In response to the news, Twitter user the_boyks – who says he worked for Nintendo – came forward and spoke about his experience.
Working for nintendo (contract for 3+ years) was one of the most stressful and awful experiences of my life. Coworkers were great, but I was constantly under pressure of being let go for little things like going to the bathroom or being stuck in traffic an extra 2 min b4 work.
Additionally, they have an awful practice of “dangling the carrot” of full time employee to contracts who they almost universally never hire on just to keep exploiting them and keep them quiet. I spoke up to try and better things for coworkers. Main reason I was let go tbh.