This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing
Over 500 employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio.
Workers at eBay subsidiary TCGplayer, an online trading card marketplace, picketed the company yesterday to protest alleged pregnancy discrimination against one of their own. More than a year after unionizing, they still don’t have a contract.
Microsoft and Starbucks as exceptions to corporations’ union busting; Starbucks baristas as beacons of bottom-up organizing.
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Union interest is growing in the gaming industry
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
Activision refused to pay on-the-clock employees for any time spent in negotiations
DIablo devs accuse the Call of Duty publisher of spending hundreds of thousands on defeating the latest union drive
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