(ZeniMax Studios Image)Quality-assurance workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Media voted on Tuesday to form a union with the Communications Workers of America. The new union, ZeniMax Workers United CWA, has more than 300 members, which instantly makes it the largest union of its type in the...
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An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)Amazon employees at a warehouse near Albany, N.Y., rejected the formation of a union Tuesday, a setback for the recently-formed Amazon Labor Union. The vote was 206 for joining the union vs. 406 against, according to the National...
A majority of retail workers at the Apple Store at Penn Square in Oklahoma City have voted to unionize. The second Apple Store to win union representation in the U.S., the workers voted 56-32 in favor of forming a union, and will be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Per...
Microsoft signs ‘labor neutrality agreement’ with union representing Activision Blizzard employees
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(GeekWire Photo)The Communications Workers of America announced Monday that it entered into a labor neutrality agreement with Microsoft that will apply at Activision Blizzard two months after Microsoft’s planned acquisition of the gaming giant. Under terms of the agreement, Microsoft takes an...
Microsoft acquisition drama continues, as Activision subsidiary’s QA team votes to unionize
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(Activision press image)The quality-assurance department at Wisconsin-based Call of Duty developer Raven Software has voted to unionize, which could significantly impact its parent company, Activision Blizzard, with potential ripple effects for Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, and for the...
Raven Software's QA division formed the Game Workers Alliance Union. It's now recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.Read...
Wearing ‘Eat the Rich’ jacket, Amazon union leader testifies before senators and meets with president
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President Biden and Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at The White House on Thursday. (White House Photo via Twitter)Christian Smalls, the leader of the first union to successfully organize at Amazon in the United States, had a message for those in power on Thursday, and he delivered some...
Wearing ‘Eat the Rich’ jacket, Amazon union leader testifies before senators and meets with president
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President Biden and Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at The White House on Thursday. (White House Photo via Twitter)Christian Smalls, the leader of the first union to successfully organize at Amazon in the United States, had a message for those in power on Thursday, and he delivered some...
Wearing ‘Eat the Rich’ jacket, Amazon union leader testifies before senators and meets with president
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President Biden and Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at The White House on Thursday. (White House Photo via Twitter)Christian Smalls, the leader of the first union to successfully organize at Amazon in the United States, had a message for those in power on Thursday, and he delivered some...
Wearing ‘Eat the Rich’ jacket, Amazon union leader testifies before senators and meets with president
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President Biden and Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at The White House on Thursday. (White House Photo via Twitter)Christian Smalls, the leader of the first union to successfully organize at Amazon in the United States, had a message for those in power on Thursday, and he delivered some...
Wearing ‘Eat the Rich’ jacket, Amazon union leader testifies before senators and meets with president
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President Biden and Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at The White House on Thursday. (White House Photo via Twitter)Christian Smalls, the leader of the first union to successfully organize at Amazon in the United States, had a message for those in power on Thursday, and he delivered some...
GDC: Game devs focus on unionization, fighting toxicity, and adopting blockchain/metaverse
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The GDC has released its annual developer survey and found growing support for unionization and the fight against toxicity.Read...
Dave Clark.Amazon is supporting federal legislation that would both legalize marijuana and purge the criminal records of people previously arrested on pot charges. Additionally, the company will stop screening for use of the drug for certain classifications of employees. But perhaps the biggest...
Amazon employees, bots or trolls? New Twitter bios emerge to speak out mostly against union effort
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The Twitter bio for a user named @AmazonFCDarla (Twitter screenshot)Amazon is getting some help in its efforts to beat back a unionization movement at one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Ala. But internet sleuths are pointing out that anti-union “employees” who have shown up on Twitter...
Various Alphabet unions have joined forces and created a global alliance called Alpha Global. It was created with some help from UNI Global, a federation of unions that represents 20 million workers from a variety of fields including the technology...