Raven Software Gets Its Union Contract With Microsoft Three Years After Voting To Organize

Employees astatine Raven Software, known for its activity connected nan Call of Duty franchise, yet person a union statement pinch Microsoft. This happened astir years aft value assurance (QA) workers astatine nan institution voted to unionize.

Workers voted unanimously to ratify nan first statement betwixt nan company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This statement includes a guaranteed 10-percent costs summation complete 2 years, on pinch further raises done "merit and promotions."

It besides eliminates crunch time, pinch a request to springiness labor 7 days' announcement for mandatory overtime. There will beryllium nary excessive overtime connected back-to-back weeks and "no mandatory overtime of immoderate long for nan mostly of weeks successful a quarter."

The statement besides mandates a "fair promotions process" on pinch expanded disablement accommodations. Finally, location are a spate of layoff protections, including severance, callback rights, COBRA subsidies and profession modulation services.

As antecedently stated, these workers voted to unionize 3 years ago. At nan time, it was nan first national astatine Activision Blizzard aliases immoderate awesome US publisher. This was earlier Microsoft scooped up Activision.

The past 3 years person been fraught for Raven's QA workers. An investigation recovered that Activision had been withholding raises from unionizing workers and nan company's apical brass were accused of "bad religion bargaining." Workers astatine ZeniMax, different institution owned by Microsoft, secured a statement successful June.