Activision Blizzard employees to walk out again on July 21

gamedeveloper.com:

Activision Blizzard employees will be staging another walkout on July 21, both in response to the company's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and what it is describing as "internal threats" that workers still face even after the company settled a high-profile lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

In the late-July walkout, employees will be demanding "protection of several communities of marginalized workers," specifically those who live in states where local legislation is targeting women and LGBTQ employees, particularly with the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"The company's current healthcare policies do not adequately protect the workers of [Activision Blizzard]," the group wrote in its announcement. "The presently offered $4,000 reimbursements for out of state medical care currently leave employees open to legal prosecution in their home state. Travel reimbursements do not remove workers from imminent danger."

The group notes that it has "attempted to work with management" on these issues, but it claims it has had its concerns dismissed in the last year.

Additionally, A Better ABK claims that employees are still facing attempts to railroad them into arbitration, and that the company has been allegedly "actively engaged in union busting," and that employees have faced harassment and intimidation for organizing. 

This two-pronged set of demands comes shortly after the employee-led Committee Against Sex and Gender Discrimination released its demands of Activision Blizzard leadership to the public. The company's statements to media outlets (insisting many of said demands had been met) are also an apparent point of complaint from worker organization group A Better