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January 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The ongoing efforts by several dozen quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the Activision Blizzard subsidiary which develops Call of Duty games, to collectively bargain hit a speedbump on Tuesday, as the parent company declined the testers’ request for voluntary recognition. The saga originated early last month, when Activision unexpectedly discharged almost a third of […]

December 7, 2021
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Zachary Boullt

A group of quality assurance testers and developers at Activision Blizzard studio Raven Software, responsible for Call of Duty: Warzone, have staged a walkout over terminated testers. This is the third recent worker action at Activision Blizzard. The demonstrating employees have demanded that all quality assurance testers, including those laid off, receive full-time position offers. […]

November 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

More than 1300 employees at Activision Blizzard have signed a petition calling for the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick after many employees staged a walkout on Tuesday with the same demand. The employee actions come after a Wall Street Journal report alleging that Kotick knew about sexual misconduct claims for years without taking action or […]

DOJ investigation could be a catalyst for an Overwatch League players union

Nov 3, 2021 Ethan Borrasso

On July 3rd, 2021, reports surfaced that the Department of Justice’s antitrust division was investigating the Overwatch League, a groundbreaking professional E-sports league based on Activision Blizzard’s hugely successful Overwatch game. The probe hinges on the league’s salary cap, which likely violates the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. Traditional sports, such as the NFL and NBA, […]

September 28, 2021
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Zachary Boullt

Part of the current infrastructure bill has a provision that could give competitive advantage to unionized telecom workforces. The bill gives preference to companies with a record of adhering to labor and employment laws for distribution of the $42.5 billion in broadband funds. State and local governments and nonprofits that receive broadband work funds would […]

September 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Missouri public employees’ unions continue to struggle against the governor’s office for collective bargaining. In 2018, former Governor Eric Greitens signed a law that gave meager raises in exchange for changing the states’ merit hiring system, effectively reclassifying state workers into at-will employees. Since then, current Governor Mike Parson, who was Greitens’s lieutenant governor, has […]

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