Activision Blizzard found to have withheld raises from unionizing Raven Software workers
. Contract negotiations between Activision Blizzard and the Game Workers Alliance are ongoing.
“Despite their best efforts, Activision’s constant attempts to undermine its workers’ and impede our union election have failed," CWA and the Game Workers Alliance told Engadget in a statement."We’re glad the NLRB recognized that Activision acted illegally when they unequally enforced policies by withholding company-wide benefits and wage increase from Raven workers for organizing.
"Due to legal obligations under the [National Labor Relations Act] requiring employers not to grant wage increases while an election was pending, we could not institute new pay initiatives at Raven because they would be brand new kinds of compensation changes, which had not been planned beforehand," Activision Blizzard spokesperson Rich George told."This rule that employers should not grant these kinds of wage increases has been the law for many years.
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