Video game workers at ‘Call Of Duty’ maker OK’d for union vote


The unionisation campaign by 21 employees at Raven’s office in Middleton, Wisconsin, has been part of a broader internal shakeup at Activision Blizzard, a Santa Monica, California-based gaming giant with roughly 10,000 employees worldwide. — Activision

MINNEAPOLIS: A small group of Wisconsin-based video game workers can vote to form what could be the first union at a major US video game publisher, a labour board official ruled.

A regional director of the US National Labor Relations Board on April 22 ordered a May election for quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software, which develops the popular Call Of Duty game franchise.

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