Activision Blizzard Employees start unionization process

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Following everything that is happening within Activision Blizzard, the employees of this company finally decided to start with the process that would allow them to be unionized. According to information about The Washington Post, Several Study Workers have already confirmed on social networks the reception and signing of the authorization that would start this procedure, with which they would seek to form a union using Communications Workers of America.

Richard Hog, Lawyer and host of the podcast Virtual Legality, explained how all this process would work at ROAMER :

Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees have the right to collectively negotiate through a union if most employees agree.

In most cases, this is done through a secret vote (many will remember from Amazon's recent case), but before determining if such a vote is necessary, the law requires 30% of employees who would be subject to said union They ask for it. We generally refer to these requests as 'union letters' or 'union authorization letters', and it seems that the potential organizers of the union within Activision have distributed those letters so that they are signed (or not) today.

Additionally, the group ABK Worker's Alliance will be carrying out a strike as well as the publication of a crowdfunding on the site GoFundMe, which aims to create a monetary fund to support all workers who can see themselves Affected by this manifestation. At the time of writing, this request takes about $90 thousand dollars collected with a goal of $1 million dollars.

It is also important to remember that on December 20, several state treasurers of the United States will be meeting with the Board of Activision Blizzard to demand solutions. In case these government officials do not agree with these proposals, then they will begin to intervene directly with the finances of the study, so things are going to be hideous for the pockets of Activision Blizzard.

Editor's note: Activision Blizzard is taking to offer solutions to your employees, and is that by this point, it was like Bobby Kick would have been dismissed from his position as CEO, and we had some kind of communicate to the respect. Instead, we have only had silence but sooner or later, the company must do something to address all these issues.