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Raven Software QA staff win their fight for union voteThe vote will take place this Friday
The vote will take place this Friday
The QA workers have organised under the name Game Workers Alliance (GWA) and have partnered with the Communication Workers Of America union. In astatement posted after the ruling, the CWA said that union election ballots would be sent to eligible workers on April 29th and the votes counted on May 23rd.
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The GWA felt this was merely an attempt to block the union, given that those Raven Software employees who would not directly benefit from the union, and who are typically better paid than QA testers, would be a lot less likely to vote in its favour. The NLRB’s didn’t rule on that argument, exactly, but theirdecision does limit the vote to just the 21 QA workers. Their rules say that a given bargaining unit does not need to be “the only appropriate unit or even the most appropriate unit. Rather, the Act requires only that the unit beanappropriate one.” The unit of 21 QA testers passes their tests for an appropriate unit, as set out in detailin the full NLRB ruling.
Raven’s QA employees, however, say that Raven Software’s management have been attempting to “undermine” their efforts to form a union. Those efforts, they say, includeexcluding them from pay increases given to other Activision Blizzard QA staffand retaining ReedSmith, a law firmQA employees sayis “well known for advising clients on union busting tactics.”
This is all also happening in the shadow ofMicrosoft’s attempt to buy Activision Blizzard. Microsoft say they won’tblock the result of the unionisation efforts.
