{"id":4453,"date":"2022-01-22T00:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/activision-blizzard-employees-form-first-of-its-kind-game-workers-alliance-union\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T00:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:42:03","slug":"activision-blizzard-employees-form-first-of-its-kind-game-workers-alliance-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/activision-blizzard-employees-form-first-of-its-kind-game-workers-alliance-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard employees form first of its kind Game Workers Alliance Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement, in an industry where unions are rare, came on the heels of Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of the company<\/p>\n<p>Employees at Raven Software, a video game studio owned by Activision Blizzard, announced Friday they have formed a union \u2013 a milestone in a largely unorganized industry recently marred by labor complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Several dozen employees of the Wisconsin studio, which is behind the massively popular Call of Duty series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/21\/business\/activision-union.html\">voted<\/a> in favor of the union. The news comes just days after Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/19\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-scrutiny-video-game-industry\">announced<\/a> it would acquire Activision Blizzard for $70bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/21\/activision-blizzard-employees-union\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca41dd62f7d5098dddd5f19ced9f6da99459540b\/0_0_5077_3047\/master\/5077.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=702c1abbd9bc199b4c21e5ec459a4af7\" title=\"Activision Blizzard employees form first of its kind Game Workers Alliance Union\" \/>The announcement, in an industry where unions are rare, came on the heels of Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of the company<br \/>\nEmployees at Raven Software, a video game studio owned by Activision Blizzard, announced Friday they have formed a union \u2013 a milestone in a largely unorganized industry recently marred by labor complaints.<br \/>\nSeveral dozen employees of the Wisconsin studio, which is behind the massively popular Call of Duty series, voted in favor of the union. The news comes just days after Microsoft announced it would acquire Activision Blizzard for $70bn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement, in an industry where unions are rare, came on the heels of Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of the company Employees at Raven Software, a video game studio owned by Activision Blizzard, announced Friday they have formed a union \u2013 a milestone in a largely unorganized industry recently marred by labor complaints. Several dozen employees of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/activision-blizzard-employees-form-first-of-its-kind-game-workers-alliance-union\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activision Blizzard employees form first of its kind Game Workers Alliance Union<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}