A spate of acquisitions, including Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, marks a flashpoint among organizers looking to make inroads in a mostly nonunion industry.
In an industry that has been historically resistant to unionization, even as other creative and adjacent fields around it have come to embrace unions, Comic WBWU is currently a rarity.
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) members say they were blindsided by the news of an international alliance, and some are considering a push to disaffiliate from the Communications Workers of America.
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