Union’s Attempt to Organize Video Game Developers Falls Flat

One of the most powerful unions in the country was awarded the award Attention to the nation It announced last month that it had gained the support of employees at a videogame development studio to unionize. However, weeks later, the union has admitted defeat and canceled plans to hold a ballot after employees had criticized it.

December 2012 Communication Workers of America Celebrate Its successful attempt to persuade a supermajority (a studio owned by Activision Blizzard) of Proletariat workers to unionize. It became apparent that the union was losing support after it announced this week that it would not hold a vote on unionization. Proletariat employees were the first to notice. Taken to Twitter To explain why many developers weren’t convinced by the union’s pitch.

The union Blame The studio’s management was accused of failing to realize the potential, and they were fired. “confrontational tactics” For example, holding meetings “demoralized and disempowered the group, making a free and fair election impossible.”

However, Dan Ogles, a studio engineer, challenged the Communication Workers of America to rewrite their description of the failure of the unionization efforts as a result of union-busting. “the union campaign was extremely contentious and divisive within the group of workers from the start.”

“Managers did not discuss unionization with their employees unless requested,” Ogles . “There were no threats or attempts at intimidation that I’m aware of; if the CWA thought otherwise they could have filed a charge of Unfair Labor Practices, as they have done many times in other campaigns.”

Kat Dolan, another Proletariat employee is also mentioned. Submitted Axios The studio management was accused by the union. “laughably fabricated,” Meetings held by management were “neutral and supportive.” Dolan claimed that the failure of the union to win over approximately 20 of her coworkers who were concerned about the impact of the union was what ended the unionization efforts.