A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft's first labor union in the U.S., which will also be the largest in the video game industry.
Microsoft bought the Maryland-based ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in 2021, giving the Xbox-maker control of ZeniMax's well-known game publishing division, Bethesda Softworks, and popular game franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.ZeniMax's unionization campaign began before Microsoft took over, senior game tester Wayne Dayberry said in an interview with The Associated Press. The campaign reflected workplace concerns that are common at video game companies, he said.
"Throughout the industry, the quality assurance departments are treated poorly, paid very little, and treated as replaceable cogs," said Dayberry, who has worked for five years at ZeniMax's Rockville, Maryland headquarters on games such as Fallout, Prey and The Evil Within. "There's not a lot of dignity involved in it," he said."That's something we're hoping to show people in the industry who are in like situations, that if we can do it, they can do it as well."
The unionization campaign accelerated thanks to Microsoft's ongoing bid to buy California-based game giant Activision Blizzard. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, made a June pact with the CWA union to stay neutral if Activision Blizzard workers sought to form a union. That worker-friendly pledge sought to appeal to U.S. regulator concerns under President Joe Biden about the labor implications of massive business mergers, though it didn't stop the Federal Trade Commission from
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