Union interest is growing in the gaming industry
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.
This month, around 300 workers at four Microsoft-owned video game studios across the US are voting on whether to unionize. Jacobin spoke to workers involved in the effort about their organizing and why they want a union.
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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