Fallout and Doom QA Testers Just Formed the Biggest Union in the US Games Industry

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Quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios, the people who make the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom, games, just voted to form a union, making it the first games studio to unionize under Microsoft and the largest group of union-represented Quality Assurance testers at any U.S. game studio.Our union will push for truly competitive pay, better communication between management and workers, a clear path for those that want to progress their career, and more,” Victoria Banos, a senior QA audio tester at Hunt Valley, said in a statement.No word on COVID infections in-office.”Last year, QA testers at Raven Software, a development studio that works under the Activision Blizzard umbrella and which recently has been focused on the Call of Duty: Warzone game, voted to form their own union.We know this is not the end of our hard work, but reaching this milestone gives us faith that when workers stand together, we can accomplish anything we set our minds to," Dylan Burton, a senior QA tester in Dallas said in a statement.In January 2022, Microsoft announced its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, but the FTC is now seeking to block the purchase, alleging that it would harm competition and deny competitors access to popular content."

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