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Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750

World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor's new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.

Bloomberg Josh Eidelson

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  • @wowgg_cwa @wowgg_cwa on x
    We're the World of Warcraft Gamemakers Guild: the first wall-to-wall union at Blizzard! We're thrilled to include WoW's QA, Art, Sound, Design, Engineering and Production voices for a democratized workplace. At this crucial moment in games, we stand together as one. For Azeroth! …
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    Microsoft now has 1,750 unionized employees in its gaming division which now spans all of the artists, developers, QA testers and others working on Fall Out, Elder Scrolls and now World of Warcraft. The equal and opposite reaction to mass layoffs at profitable big techs is here. …
  • @alphabetworkers @alphabetworkers on x
    Welcome to our newest union siblings: the workers of World of @Warcraft! 500 workers at Activision Blizzard just unionized with @CWAunion. [image]
  • @ethangach @ethangach on x
    In addition to the entire World of Warcraft team unionizing, 60 QA at Blizzard Austin working on games like Diablo 4 also formed a union. [image]
  • @tha_rami @tha_rami on x
    INCREDIBLE to hear about Blizzard's World of Warcraft team unionizing. These first few major US studios to take the step into unionizing are such important moments: as conditions for these teams are slowly forced to improve, other studios in the country will want to follow.
  • @shannon_liao Shannon Liao on x
    Both World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls studios (owned by Microsoft) have now formed large “wall-to-wall” unions.
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  • r/Competitiveoverwatch r on reddit
    Blizzard's entire WoW team is unionizing.  Will Team 4 be next?
  • r/gamedev r on reddit
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    Wow devs form Union in wake of Bethesda Studios unionizing
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    WoW's Dev Team Unionizes, Maybe we get a better game.
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