In a meeting with the employees of Xbox Game Studios, the boss of Xbox Phil Spencer said the union of QA testers recently formed at Raven Software will be recognized by the company. According to KotakuSpencer said: “we absolutely support the right of employees to organize and form trade unions“.
The statement comes in light of Microsoft’s impending acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as well as the fact that Raven Software’s QA team recently voted to form a union, making it essentially the first-ever union at a major. video game studio.
“Once the agreement is concluded, we will fully support the employee organization“said Spencer.”We think it is an employee right and that it can be part of a relationship between a company and the people who work there“.
It is worth noting that, under US labor law, companies must recognize the unionization efforts of their employees. In this case, once the unionization votes are over – which ended in the case of the Raven Software QA team – failure to recognize unionization would have legal repercussions for both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.
Source: Gamingbolt.
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