Spanish union Coordinadora Sindical del Videojuego (CSV), a branch of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), has called for recurring three-day strikes at Ubisoft Mobile Barcelona on September 1-3 and 16-18, plus a protest outside the offices on September 1. The action targets a return-to-office mandate delayed from October 2026 to January 2027, with no negotiation or staff input on the shift. Workers note this follows a 2025 push that forced an extra office day through individual coercion under threat of losing remote work entirely.

The Mobile Barcelona site sits amid Ubisoft's broader restructuring, which includes studio closures in Winnipeg and Belgrade, 380 total role cuts, and a pivot of the main Barcelona studio to Rainbow Six Siege focus after Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced support. Prior industrial action at the studio included partial strikes in June-July 2026 over 51 proposed layoffs (roughly 28% of pre-cut headcount), with demands for job protection, promotion execution, and 60% monthly remote work. A 2024 lawsuit from Barcelona unions already challenged an earlier RTO policy for lacking transparency and benefits.

The union states the strike notice went to Ubisoft in early August with no response, only the unilateral delay. This pattern of top-down mandates without collective bargaining mirrors tactics that previously drew legal challenges and walkouts. Management's "team creativity" rationale for full on-site work lacks documented proof, while staff highlight logistical failures and eroded work-life balance. The recurring strikes signal sustained pushback until negotiation happens or the policy reverses.

Receipts from the restructure show sales success on projects built by affected teams did nothing to alter mandate decisions, underscoring how cost-cutting overrides studio output. Ubisoft has yet to engage representatives, leaving the September actions as the next escalation in a long-running labor dispute.