{"id":5797,"date":"2022-05-23T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/activision-blizzards-raven-software-workers-vote-to-form-industrys-first-union\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:37:01","slug":"activision-blizzards-raven-software-workers-vote-to-form-industrys-first-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/activision-blizzards-raven-software-workers-vote-to-form-industrys-first-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard\u2019s Raven Software workers vote to form industry\u2019s first union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote marks a victory for labor advocates in an industry mired with allegations of abuse and poor working conditions<\/p>\n<p>Workers in a division of video game company Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a major US gaming firm.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard\u2019s Raven Software, which develops the popular Call of Duty game franchise, voted 19-3 in favor of unionizing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/23\/activision-blizzard-raven-software-union-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ff3e4531fe12a67dbee7a010d4ea594ad79f3f87\/0_13_4800_2880\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9582d60cc3e7e0046e4f5776785baf7a\" title=\"Activision Blizzard\u2019s Raven Software workers vote to form industry\u2019s first union\" \/>The vote marks a victory for labor advocates in an industry mired with allegations of abuse and poor working conditions<br \/>\nWorkers in a division of video game company Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a major US gaming firm.<br \/>\nA small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard\u2019s Raven Software, which develops the popular Call of Duty game franchise, voted 19-3 in favor of unionizing on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote marks a victory for labor advocates in an industry mired with allegations of abuse and poor working conditions Workers in a division of video game company Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a major US gaming firm. A small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers at Activision &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/activision-blizzards-raven-software-workers-vote-to-form-industrys-first-union\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activision Blizzard\u2019s Raven Software workers vote to form industry\u2019s first union<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5798,"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\/5797"}],"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=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}