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Sonic Maker Sega Is The Video Game Industry’s Next Union Battleground
1Over 140 workers at Sega of America’s Irvine, California office have announced plans to form a new union to fight for better pay, adequate staffing, and more balanced schedules. It’s the latest front in the video game industry’s growing unionization movement, and the first to move its focus beyond strictly game developers.
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Hot Damn: Another Activision Blizzard Studio Is Unionizing
Developers at the Boston-based gaming studio Proletariat announced plans to unionize on Tuesday. If successful, roughly 60 employees there who worked on World of Warcraft’s new Dragonflight expansion would join the growing ranks of organised labour across parent company Activision Blizzard and beyond.
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300 QA Devs Unionize At Microsoft-Owned ZeniMax Studios
The gaming industry’s recent wave of labour organising just exploded. Roughly 300 quality assurance staff at ZeniMax studios, which includes Bethesda and games like The Elder Scrolls Online , announced today that they will unionize with the Communications Workers of America. And unlike union drives at Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, which purchased ZeniMax in the 2021…
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Activision Nickel-And-Dimes New Union As Call Of Duty Enjoys $AU1.27 Billion Weekend
Quality assurance staff at Call of Duty studio Raven Software unionized back in May, but over five months later the developers say progress is almost nonexistent on the first union contract at a major gaming company. Activision is apparently still denying unionized staff the raises given to all other QA testers earlier in the year,…