Blizzard Albany , the study previously known as Vicarious Visions , is the new Activision development team that proposes its unionization. There have been about 20 quality control employees who have presented themselves to a trade union election before the National Board of Labor Relations (NLBR), and have confirmed their adherence to the Game World Alliance through the thread you have above.
As reported by the Washington Post, these quality control workers asked the Blizzard Activision Directive to voluntarily recognize its union last Friday.
I firmly believe that having the union will give us the power we need to improve our workplace, says Amanda Laven, associate test analyst at Blizzard Albany, in statements for the American environment. It is very exciting to make it public and, hopefully, to be able to inspire others of the way Raven, and Starbucks and Amazon and all the unions that have preceded us have inspired us.
Raven has been a great inspiration for us, says Laven. «Seeing its process, it has been demystifying to see how they do first and have an idea of how things are going and how the company could answer... We have already managed to see someone to do it in our own company, and they have been very communicative with us speaking How things are and what problems have encountered ».
Although at first Raven went through a similar situation with the consequent negative of Activision, later they could establish their union thanks to the NLBR, some steps that plan to follow from the old Vicarous Visions, which merged with Activision last April for The support of Blizzard projects, as was the case of Diablo II Resurrected.
In this case, Activision has issued a statement to Kotaky in which it emphasizes that its main priority remain our employees. «We deeply respect the right of all employees, according to law, to make their own decisions on affiliation or not to a union. We believe that a direct relationship between the company and its employees is the most productive. The company will give a public and formal response to the NLRB request ».
However, as they point out in the same medium, both Raven Software and Blizzard Albany (to succeed) will still have to negotiate their first contract.
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