The gaming industry is changing. After years of groundwork over the past decade, laid across social media and in the halls of gatherings like the Game Developers Conference, workers are organizing into unions in their fight against a history of overwork, low pay and harassment. Unions are on the rise in the games industry as ...
picture: blizzard Already in July A group of 21 quality assurance staff at Activision’s Albany studio – formerly known as Vicarious Visions – announced their intention to unionise. Today the National Labor Relations Board confirmed that their vote can go ahead. The verdict came about because –and interrupt me if you’ve heard this before– Publisher ...
Last January, the announcement was like a bombshell in the video game world. Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for the insane sum of $68.7 billion. As you can imagine, a purchase of this magnitude takes some time to complete. There are many details to be clarified, questions to be clarified and many actors to be convinced. ...
In early May we learned that the European Union was behind USB Type-C as a connection standard, so just a few days ago we knew that by 2024 every mobile device on the market will have to have it. And while on Android it It has charging speeds that iPhone users already wantcompetition between brands ...
Activision Blizzard employees recently received an email stating that improving the company’s culture should be achieved within the company, not through unions. A report in the “Washington Post” showed that this company-wide e-mail was sent by Chief Administrative Officer Brian Bulatao to Activision Blizzard employees. This email was sent after employees considering forming a union, ...
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An Atlanta worker working on a staircase rolls stones at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s grave following a meeting hosted by a Southern Christian leadership supporting a strike in Atlanta on April 4, 1970. King was killed in Memphis, Tenn., two years ago while supporting a sanitation worker strike there. The signs of learning to ...
One of the largest unions in the United States has recognized the appeal of the gaming industry union and has launched a new campaign. The American Association of Communications Workers has launched a new project to establish unions for workers in the technology and video game industries. CWA has partnered with another prominent developer union ...
