This will be the largest video game association in the country to date
Raven QA vote to form union! First in AAA Gaming History!
Hundreds of Activision quality assurance workers are unionized with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union covers about 600 Activision central QA workers in three locations: Austin, Texas; Eden Prairie, Minn.; and El Segundo, California. This makes the union, called Activision Quality Assurance United – CWA, the largest group of unionized video game workers in the United States
The final vote tallied at 390 "yes" votes and eight "no" votes, a CWA representative told Polygon.
"Something we organized around is that in this industry, QA and customer service are the lowest paid jobs, and often looked down upon either within the industry or by customers," Activision QA tester and organizing committee member Kara Fannon told Polygon. "It's easy for people to say to QA, 'Oh, I found a bug,' even though we logged tens of thousands of bugs. So why is QA [unionized], as opposed to other people in the industry? We have the weakest protections for present and we want to make sure we're strong so our work can continue as it is – we want to support these games and work really hard on them.”
