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Video game union announces first contract with Microsoft


Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with

It’s been a little over two years since approximately 300 QA testers announced that they were unionizing through the Communications Workers of America, and they said they’ve been negotiating with Microsoft ever since. Bloomberg reports that the contract terms include an across-the-board, 13.5% pay raise on July 1. In a statement, QA tester and union bargaining committee member Page Branson called this “a monumental victory for all current video game workers and for those that come after.”

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