the ABK Worker Alliance, made up of employees from publishing giant Activision Blizzard, today called on supporters to donate to a strike fund to support an ongoing work stoppage over the recently announced one Redundancies. It’s the newest step in an ongoing Protest of their management Answer to months of Complaints and reports of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination throughout the company.
“Today the ABK workers’ alliance announces the start of their strike,” the group said wrote on Twitter. “We encourage our colleagues in the games industry to help us create lasting change.” The ABK Worker Alliance is also linked to a strike fund set up on GoFundMewhere it calls on supporters to help raise $ 1 million to look after employees during the business interruption.
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In the months since then, CEO Bobby Kotick and the Board of Directors have protected criminals and only brought criminals to justice after the events were exposed through outside media. We saw Activision hire the law firm WilmerHale, known for its union destruction, to disrupt and hamper the improvement efforts of Activision Blizzard employees. We’ve seen Raven Software employees lured in by the promise of a promotion, only to have them quit shortly after the move in addition to the already underrated and severely underpaid working conditions of ABK employees across the company. These and many other events have led an alliance of Activision-Blizzard employees to initiate a work stoppage until the demands are met and the employee representatives are finally given a place in the company.
the Washington PostShannon Liao Reports that the ABK Worker Alliance will also require Activision Blizzard employees to sign union authorization cards in a massive new move toward union formation in partnership with the Communications Workers of America.
These latest work actions are coming as a quality assurance tester at Raven Software, the studio responsible for Call of Duty: Warzone, quit my job earlier this week to protest recently announced layoffs. While 500 contractors at Activision Blizzard would move to full-time, the company said 20 would be terminated towards the end of January, a move that would hurt, according to Raven developers War zoneconstant further development and maintenance. Over 60 QA employees and other developers from other offices participated in the strike during the week, and according to The Washington Post, those still involved are no longer paid.
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It is currently unclear how many will participate in the ABK Worker’s Alliance’s major work stoppage announced today. Last month over 1,500 employees at the company with around 10,000 employees signed a letter calls on CEO Bobby Kotick to resign Bomb report from The Wall Street Journal involved him in the editor’s previous abuse and toxic workplace culture.
Yesterday an employee named Christine held a press conference outside Blizzard’s Irvine office, where she was said she was groped and sexually harassed by superiors, and later demoted after the misconduct was reported to Human Resources. Her attorney Lisa Bloom called on Activision Blizzard to expand a previously announced $ 18 million settlement with federal regulators into a $ 100 million fund for victims.
Activision Blizzard and the ABK Worker’s Alliance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Clarification: 12/9/21, 11:08 AM ET: Updated report to show that the Strike Fund supports an ongoing work stoppage.
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