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TCGPlayer Union starts email campaign to support upcoming election

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Workers at TCGPlayer are trying to form a union under the new management, to address and solve a few concerns and issues regarding a few of the company's polices, such as number goals and unclear career progression, among others. The company has answered with a "a ruthless anti-union campaign".

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TCGPlayer is one of the most established and successful trading-cards sellers in the industry, a booming business that sells trading card games' cards such as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic: The Gathering cards. Just last year, the company was acquired by its competitor, E-bay, as a subsidiary, after having "triple digital growth" in 2021 when compared to the previous year, a number not to be scoffed by any business, considering it was achieved in one of the COVID-19 pandemic peak years. E-bay effectively bought TCGPlayer in October 2022, for $295 million.

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Ever since then, workers have reported a number of constantly growing issues regarding management, including a "ruthless anti-union campaign" when they started to unionized back in January. A few of the issues workers have reported include "a metric system that changes weekly", which has caused many workers to suffer penalties or even lose their jobs due to not meeting impossible goals they didn't even know they had.

“The constant changes to those metrics make it more trouble than it's worth to keep track of our numbers on a daily basis”

- TCG Union

The movement had begun unionizing back in 2020, but had to withdraw its request a few days before the vote, after the company hired famous union-busting firm Littler Mendelson, and subsequently began running "an intense anti-union campaign where workers were regularly ordered to attend captive audience meetings and disparaged by management in company communications.", the press release by CWA states.