More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee “World of Warcraft” are unionizing. The game’s development team employees — which include designers, engineers, artists, quality assurance testers and more — are joining the Communications Workers of America.
FILE - Gamers test out computer games at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 22, 2017. More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee “World of Warcraft” are joining the Communications Workers of America, the union announced Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft’s publisher, has recognized the union.
With Wednesday’s World of Warcraft news, alongside other recent organizing efforts, CWA says more than 1,750 video game workers at Microsoft now have representation with the union.Disney reaches tentative agreement with California theme park workers Tom Smith, senior director of organizing at CWA, added that Wednesday’s news “marks a key inflection point” in the broader industrywide efforts to organize video game workers.
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