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The gaming industry has seen a wave of unionization efforts in recent years. Quality assurance testers at ZeniMax Studios pushed to unionize, saying labor issues such as low wages and long hours drove them to organize.

So far, tech's labor activism has largely moved on the margins of the industry, with Amazon warehouse workers, Apple Store employees and video game QA testers leading organizing efforts, while engineers, product teams and other headquarters staff mostly shied away.

If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.

Blizzard Albany QA form the second-ever union at a major U.S. gaming company

DIablo devs accuse the Call of Duty publisher of spending hundreds of thousands on defeating the latest union drive

With the seemingly modest step of agreeing not to oppose workers' efforts to unionize, Microsoft has upended long-held assumptions about Big Tech's hostility to organized labor.

CWA labels Activisions reasoning behind not including Raven workers in the pay rise "disingenuous" and "galling".

Ahead of the election at Activision Blizzard, the National Labor Review Board will define union scope