Nearly three hundred quality control staff throughout the company ZeniMax (bethesda, ID Software or Arcana) voted to form unions ZeniMax Workers United traditionally falls under trade union organization Communications Workers of America. Microsoft, which has owned ZeniMax since last year, kept its word and voluntarily acknowledged the alliance.
Testers ZeniMax keep an eye on your colleagues Activision Blizzard or Biovar, but they still outnumber them. With less than three hundred members, they become the largest video game union in the United States.
“We have the opportunity to make big changes and bring justice to the gaming industry. We want to end the crisis, unfair pay and lack of growth opportunities within the company. Our unions will promote (…) better communication between management and employees, opening the way for those who want to move up the career ladder and the like,” he says on behalf of the unions. tester Victoria Banos.
Trade unions at the same time they appreciate the approach Microsoft and they implicitly compare it to, for example, Activision Blizzard: “Microsoft justified its commitment to employees and let them decide for themselves whether they want to form a union. Other video game and technology giants have made conscious choices to attack, undermine and demoralize their employees. Microsoft is taking a different direction that will strengthen the company’s culture and its ability to serve customers and should serve as a model for the entire industry…”
Source :Indian TV
