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QA workers have formed a new union at the publisher. It was organized through the Communications Workers of America , like other unions at the company, and this new union is now the largest in the American gaming industry, surpassing the 300-personentered into a labor neutrality agreement with the CWA
in 2022 as union organizing efforts across the industry, but especially at Activision Blizzard-owned studios, were getting into full swing. It was an important victory for the CWA, but also a strategic move by Microsoft in its years-long campaign to seal the deal on its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
That agreement seems to have helped these Activision QA workers quickly and cleanly form their union at the company, but it's not like the house Bill Gates built is a worker's paradise or anything just yet: this successful union effort comes a little over a month after theStill, it's heartening to see continued successful union organizing in the industry, especially since union protections are one of the most effective bulwarks against mass layoffs that workers can pursue.
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