https://www.mmorpg.com/news/blizzard-albany-qa-workers-have-voted-to-unionize-2000126783
Blizzard Albany QA Workers Have Voted to Unionize
This is the second Activision Blizzard QA team to organize
"Blizzard Albany QA workers have voted 14-0 in their unionization vote and will officially organize under Game Workers Alliance Albany, which is under the Communication Workers of America. The vote came after the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) denied Activision Blizzard’s attempt to delay the vote and prevent a count of any ballots that had been sent."
@Gladari GOOD. Blizzard is a terrible company.
@Tail That's unfortumate. I hope all the employees can get fair treatment. Looks like the NLRB understands their organizational structure & the employees job descriptions. We wouldn't mind paying a few more $ for employees who get a living wage with benefits!
@Gladari absolutely, people before profits. Of course, they'll use the unionization to arbitrarily raise their prices so they can continue boasting about record profits, but I digress. Blizzard can well afford to pay their employees, and maybe they'll make a less toxic work environment and actually respect their employees in the process.
@Tail Absolutely, we know the cause of current inflation - it isn't employees wages & benefits! It is corporate greed pure & simple That can be shown by record profits! When I was a union rep. (commonly called Business Agent by many unions) for a State Teacher's union, the number 1 reason for unionization was a grievance procedure. It's about respecting an employee's ideas and problems in the workplace.
@Gladari exactly, without a union the companies are free to abuse their employees however they please while suffering no consequences whatsoever. Chiquita literally slaughtered 2000 banana farmers because they tried to unionize and people still buy their bananas.
United we bargain, divided we beg.