Microsoft promises to recognise Activision Blizzard unions – Channel Asia

Credit: Dreamstime Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have reached a neutrality agreement that promises to ease the path to unionisation for staff at Activision Blizzard, the game studio Redmond plans to acquire for US$68.7 billion. Quality assurance staff at Activision Blizzard subsidiary Raven Software voted to unionise last month , the culmination of months of action — including a five-week strike in January over Activision's decision to lay off 12 QA testers — that resulted in the first union at a major US video game publisher. Despite initially refusing to voluntarily recognise the CWA-backed union, Activision Blizzard's…