A group of 28 QA testers at Activision Blizzard’s Wisconsin-based Raven Software studio have, despite the publisher’s ongoing anti-unionisation efforts, won their vote to unionise.
Activision Blizzard contested the filing, but its arguments were rejected by NLRB, whereupon the publisher was reportedly began ramping up its anti-unionisation efforts.
Activision Blizzard, however, was rather less enthusiastic following today’s news, telling the Washington Post that while it ‘respects and believes’ in the right of all employees to decide whether or not to support or vote for a union, “We believe that an important decision that will impact the entire Raven Software studio of roughly 350 people should not be made by 19 of Raven employees.
I hope that ours is the first union of many for QA workers and I’m really looking forward to seeing which studio is next.”