Dragon Age 4 QA Devs Are Unionizing
Talk of unionization has been at the forefront of the public conscience in recent years as thousands of employees all over the world have pushed for better workers' rights and fair compensation. The gaming industry in particular has come under fire often in recent years with reports of toxic work environments and harassment within the workplace reaching some of the industry's most iconic companies like Activision Blizzard and Riot Games. Now, BioWare has become the newest gaming juggernaut to find itself embroiled in a conflict with one of its subsidiaries looking to unionize.
There has long been a push for game developers to unionize due to the nature of the work with the gaming industry gaining a reputation for its focus on «crunch» development and workplace harassment towards women. Nintendo was recently hit with allegations of union busting by the National Labor Relations Board with the legendary developer reportedly taking measures against employees attempting to unionize with some even being «discharged,» though Nintendo has pushed back against those claims. With the labor movement on the rise in the gaming industry, QA employees working on BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age 4 are reportedly looking to unionize following a recent notice from the developer.
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The reported unionization efforts from members of contracting company Keywords Studios comes following a «return-to-office» notice from BioWare stating that all employees expected to return to in-person offices five days a week, beginning in less than two weeks. The notice comes as Alberta, the Canadian province that is home to BioWare, continues to see almost 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day. Keywords' efforts to
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