Blizzard Workers Unite More Game Developers at Microsofts Blizzard Form a Union

More game workers at Microsoft's Blizzard have unionised, marking another significant step in the growing movement of unionisation within the tech and video game industries. This week, the Story and Franchise Development team at Blizzard Entertainment voted overwhelmingly to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the largest communications and media labour union in America. This team is responsible for creating cinematics, animation, narrative content, promotional videos, and in-game cutscenes for Blizzard's well-known franchises, as well as managing franchise archives and historical records.

This marks the first in-house cinematic, animation, and narrative studio in the North American game industry to form a union. These workers will join nearly 3,000 other employees at Microsoft-owned studios who have already organised with CWA following Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023, all striving for better standards across the video game sector. The CWA's announcement highlights this ongoing trend, with over 6,000 workers in both the United States and Canada organising under the Campaign to Organise Digital Employees (CODE-CWA) in the past five years.

Microsoft has recognised the union, adhering to the labour neutrality policy the company agreed to in 2022. This policy has facilitated union formation at several other Microsoft-owned game studios, including those working on World of Warcraft, QA teams in Austin, Bethesda, and ZeniMax Online Studios. Unionised workers at Raven Studios also recently secured a contract with Microsoft. According to the CWA, one organising committee member and cinematic producer stated their excitement about forming a union to protect colleagues from misguided policies and instability caused by potential layoffs.

Fuente Original: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/08/17/062255/more-game-workers-at-microsofts-blizzard-join-a-union?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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