GWA Albany is the second QA unit at Activision Blizzard to successfully unionize.
to delay the vote. Activision Blizzard argued, as it had in the run up to the Raven QA vote, that any question of unionization should apply to the whole studio as opposed to a single department.
GWA Albany argued, and the NLRB agreed, that there are enough differences in pay, treatment, and the nature of their work that the QA staff had ample ground to unionize independent of other departments. GWA Albany will next move to contract negotiations, a stage Raven QA remains mired in. At the beginning of November,reported on the state of negotiations, particularly Activision Blizzard's insistence on not awarding Raven QA workers a pay increase granted to the company's other QA units back in April. have both withheld general pay raises from union workplaces, citing labor law drafted to ensure employers could not sway union drives with changes to pay.
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