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May 23, 2022 07:36 pm

Activision Blizzard employees win their union vote




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The Game Workers Alliance, the union of quality assurance workers at Activision subsidiary studio Raven Software, has won their union vote. The votes were tallied today and the union passed with 19 out of 22 votes with two challenged ballots. The election makes the Game Workers Alliance (GWA) the first union for Activision Blizzard and only the second formal union in US video game industry.






The vote is the culmination of months of organizing and a seeming concerted effort of union-busting on behalf of Activision Blizzard. In December, after 12 QA employees were informed they would be laid off in January, QA workers staged...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23138412/activision-blizzard-union-vote-game-workers-alliance

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