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17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images More than 17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast are on strike after accusing company management of “unfair labor practices” during recent contract negotiations. A statement released Friday by the Communications Workers of America — the union representing the striking employees — said AT&T did not …

Microsoft’s World of Warcraft development workers are unionizing

NEW YORK — More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee “World of Warcraft” are unionizing. It also builds on an expansion of organized labor seen among Microsoft video game workers since the tech giant’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard last year. With Wednesday’s World of Warcraft news, alongside other recent organizing efforts, CWA says more than …

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Activision Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ game developers vote to unionize

Video game workers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on the popular game “World of Warcraft” have voted to unionize. The more than 500 game developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on the blockbuster video game “World of Warcraft” have elected to form a union, marking the latest entrant in a wave of unionizing efforts in the video game industry. “We …

What the Microsoft Activision deal means for labor unions

How ‘crunch’ time and low pay are fueling a union drive among video game workers

Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union

A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft’s first labor union in the U.S. and the largest in the video game industry. Communications Workers of America said that about 300 quality-assurance workers at Microsoft video game subsidiary ZeniMax Studios have voted to join the union. A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft’s first labor union in the …

Apple workers vote to unionise second Apple Store in US

Apple workers have voted in favour of unionising a second Apple Store in the United States. The Penn Square in Oklahoma City is the second Apple Store in the US to unionise after Apple retail workers in Maryland became the first union-represented Apple store in the U.S. The US National Labor Relations Board, on Friday, counted the ballots submitted by …

Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America said on Monday they have entered into a labour neutrality agreement, enabling workers to freely and fairly choose union representation. “This agreement provides a pathway for Activision Blizzard workers to exercise their democratic rights to organise and collectively bargain after the close of the Microsoft acquisition and establishes a high road framework for …

Apple Store employees in Atlanta file for union election

CNN Business — Workers at an Apple Store in Atlanta filed for a union election on Wednesday in a bid to become the first group of retail employees at the tech giant to unionize. Over 70% of the 100-plus eligible workers at the store in Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall have signed union authorization cards, according to the labor union Communications Workers …

Google workers unionize, a watershed in Silicon Valley activism

For much of the last two decades, the engineers, developers, and designers who helped grow Google into one of the world’s largest companies rode a wave of success mostly quietly, buoyed by high salaries and the thrill of their rapid-fire innovation. Unlike in a traditional union, it allows for the company’s part-time or contractor employees to join alongside full employees, …