MSFT - Third Activision Blizzard studio forms labor union

• Another videogame studio at Activision Blizzard ( NASDAQ: ATVI ) has formed a labor union , the third such group to have organized under the publisher in 2022.
• A 57-person unit at Proletariat has filed for representation by the Communications Workers of America. The group includes designers, animators, engineers, producers and quality assurance workers - notable as it would be the first union to include workers other than those in QA.
• Proletariat was freshly acquired in June, saying it was uniting with Blizzard Entertainment to advance that company's World of Warcraft franchise.
• A group of just over 20 workers at Activision's Raven Software organized in January and approved unionization in May - a first for major videogame publishers - and workers at Blizzard Albany planned in July to organize and voted in favor in December.
• Activision Blizzard is in the midst of a $69B acquisition by Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ), and Microsoft is facing its own first unionization effort - also in the videogaming space - as QA workers at ZeniMax Studios (parent of Bethesda Softworks) began organizing this month.

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