Video game maker Ubisoft has closed its production studio in Halifax, cutting 71 jobs.
The Paris-based company issued a statement today saying the move has nothing to do with a union initiative that saw 60 employees join the Canadian chapter of the Communications Workers of America last month.
The company says it has been restructuring its global operations over the past two years, long before the union announced in June that the majority of Ubisoft Halifax employees had agreed to apply for union certification.
A company spokesman in its Halifax office said Ubisoft has closed or downsized several studios around the world over the past two years, including in London, San Francisco, Osaka in central Japan and Leamington, UK.
The company, which employed more than 17,000 people as of September, cut more than 1,500 jobs last year, a spokesman said.
Ubisoft is best known for its Assassin's Creed franchise.
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Most of the employees working in Halifax supported the mobile version of the game known as Assassin's Creed Rebellion and also worked on Rainbow Six Mobile.
The company's largest production studio is in Montreal, but it also has studios in Toronto, Winnipeg, Que., Sherbrooke, Que., and Saguenay, Que., a company spokesman said, adding that the company's cuts affected other Canadian offices.
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