The Overwatch developer team organized the union

A team of nearly 200 developers of a snowstorm from Activision behind Overwatch The privilege has been excavated. It has been formed under the American communications workers (CWA), which is the Gamemakes Overwatch union is the latest union for snow from the wall to the wall that has been recognized by the parent company Microsoft since The world of boxes The development team announced its union Last July.

CWA announced on Friday “The vast majority of workers either signed a union license card or indicated that they want to represent the union.” the Overwatch The unit unit includes gaming developers through production, engineering, design, art, sound and quality guarantee, pressure for job security, salary, and improvements to the protection of workers.

“After a long history of workers’ demobilization, working conditions, and subpar in the global video game industry, my colleagues and I am pleased with the work to join the wider union effort to organize our industry for the better, which has been late for a long time,” Foster Edrandorf said in a CWA agreement.

CWA says more than 2,600 workers in Microsoft Games have now joined their ranks, including a union formed by 600 quality assurance workers working in Activision In March 2024. The chains of union efforts followed a neutral employment agreement signed between CWA and Microsoft in 2022, making it easy for employees of subsidiary companies such as Activision Blizzard to organize.