{"id":21019,"date":"2022-12-03T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/pour-one-out-for-the-bosses-activision-blizzard-loses-second-union-vote\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:00:42","slug":"pour-one-out-for-the-bosses-activision-blizzard-loses-second-union-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/pour-one-out-for-the-bosses-activision-blizzard-loses-second-union-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Pour One Out For The Bosses: Activision Blizzard Loses Second Union Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Activision Blizzard\u2019s playbook came up short again. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/blizzard-albany-qa-testers-diablo-iv-union-activision-1849674924\">delays, legal appeals, and threats<\/a> to workers that organizing would lead to lower pay raises, quality assurance developers at the <em>Diablo<\/em> production studio Blizzard Albany voted 14-0 to unionize today. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreGWAAlbany\/status\/1598078309967200258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Game Workers Alliance Albany<\/a> are now the second group\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/activision-blizzard-diablo-4-union-bust-vote-game-dev-1849847433\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision Blizzard\u2019s playbook came up short again. Despite delays, legal appeals, and threats to workers that organizing would lead to lower pay raises, quality assurance developers at the Diablo production studio Blizzard Albany voted 14-0 to unionize today. The Game Workers Alliance Albany are now the second group\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source &#8211; kotaku.com All content<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21020,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1611,748,6393],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-activision","tag-blizzards","tag-playbook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pour One Out For The Bosses: Activision Blizzard Loses Second Union Vote | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Pour One Out For The Bosses: Activision Blizzard Loses Second Union Vote for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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