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Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what Activision Blizzard's newly unionised employees want from Microsoft


Pay rises, AI regulation, and layoff protection: what Activision Blizzard's newly unionised employees want from Microsoft.

Last week, Activision Blizzard's Story and Franchise Development team (SFD) announced to the world it had unionised alongside the Communications Workers of America (CWA). "There's been a lot of leadership changes over the past few years," states Veneto, "and we feel like getting a union contract will give us some stability no matter what shake-ups happen at the company. Then of course as a collective the union has have options like strike action which becomes feasible to organise while unionised, better access to information and council in regard to contracts and an individual's rights as a worker, and so on.

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