Quality Assurance Union Not Recognized by Activision Blizzard - Employees to Proceed with NLRB Vote
Activision Blizzard has elected not to voluntarily recognize the Game Workers Alliance union organized by Raven Software Quality Assurance team members. Citing an inability to find a mutually acceptable solution with the Communications Workers of America, which the GWA intends to be an affiliate of, the company acknowledged that the fledgling union should now be moving forward with petitioning for recognition by the National Labor Relations Board.
While employees first received the news from Raven studio head Brian Raffel, an Activision Blizzard response has since been shared by Polygon.
Activision Blizzard, via PolygonAt Activision Blizzard, we deeply respect the rights of all employees to make their own decisions about whether or not to join a union. We carefully reviewed and considered the CWA initial request last week and tried to find a mutually acceptable solution with the CWA that would have led to an expedited election process.Unfortunately, the parties could not reach an agreement. We expect that the union will be moving forward with the filing of a petition to the NLRB for an election.
If filed, the company will respond formally to that petition promptly. The most important thing to the company is that each eligible employee has the opportunity to have their voice heard and their individual vote counted, and we think all employees at Raven should have a say in this decision.
Across the company, we believe that a direct relationship between managers and team members allows us to quickly respond and deliver the strongest results and opportunities for employees. As a result of these direct relationships, we’ve made a number of changes over the past couple years including raising minimum compensation for Raven QA.
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