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Finally a contract for the one that started it all.
Posted Aug 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM UTC Finally a contract for the one that started it all.
Workers at Raven Software have finally secured their first union contract winning for its members guaranteed wage increases, protection against mandatory overtime known as crunch, and more. The win comes three years after quality assurance workers at the Call of Duty support studio organized the Game Workers Alliance in collaboration with the Communications Workers of America.
The GWA would become the first union organized at Activision Blizzard before Microsoft acquired the publisher in 2023. The organization efforts at Raven heralded a string of unionization drives within Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, and beyond. Raven Software Workers Secure First Contract at Microsoft
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