Raven Software QA Forms 34 Person Union, Demands Recognition

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Do you know what they call a flock of 34 QA testers banding together? A union. A murder would be more fun but they're a union and I guess that's pretty cool too.

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Quality Assurance workers within Raven Software, an Activision Blizzard studio most known for testing, have unionized. The 34 worker team has taken the name Game Workers Alliance Union, and have asked Activision to publicly acknowledge their union status. The union itself is part of the Communications Workers of America, the largest union in the American media industry.

The call for unionization has spread among the videogame industry as of late, and indie developer Vodeo Games shattered the glass ceiling when they became theEven before unionizing, the workers of Raven Software made news byhave become vocal about the ever increasing amount of bugs they encounter within the game.

Activision Blizzard has not yet officially recognized the union, but have stated “While we believe that a direct relationship between the company and its team members delivers the strongest workforce opportunities, we deeply respect the rights of all employees under the law to make their own decisions about whether or not to join a union.”

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