QA workers at ZeniMax Media are forming a union.
report quotes some employees who, unsurprisingly, cited crunch as a driving factor behind the move to unionize: One employee who works on The Elder Scrolls Online said ZeniMax recently made overtime hours voluntary, but that many employees still feel pressured to take them on. Pay rates lower than those offered by other software development sectors, like financial or security software, were also noted as a problem.
As it did with Activision Blizzard, Microsoft committed to remaining"neutral" during the voting process, and has apparently stuck to its word: The report says ZeniMax employees have praised the company for not trying to convince employees to vote against unionization. It no doubt behooves Microsoft to do so: Unionization efforts are gaining steam—QA workers atvoted overwhelmingly to join the Game Workers Alliance union over the past weekend—and resisting it would at best be a bad look.
"When workers have the opportunity to join a union without company interference, it empowers them to have their voices heard in the workplace," the CWA tweeted."We are glad to support ZeniMax quality assurance workers as they join the growing videogame labor movement in the US. "We applaud Microsoft for remaining neutral through this process and letting workers decide for themselves whether they want a union.The company is fulfilling the commitments they laid out in their labor principals earlier this yr, while sending a resounding message to the videogame industry: the right to freely & fairly make a choice about union representation should be in the hands of the workers, not mgmt.
We applaud @Microsoft for remaining neutral through this process and letting workers decide for themselves whether they want a union.Microsoft's reaction to ZeniMax's QA union stands in sharp contrast to that of Activision Blizzard, which actively worked to undermine employees seeking to organize in ways ranging from
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