More than 500 of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft developers came together to form a union, nearly defeating Bethesda employees who did the same late last week, but never mind, there was never anything other than a little “friendliness” Other things.
This Blizzard union is called the World of Warcraft Game Producers Guild (WoWGG) and was formed in partnership with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). What sets this union apart from unions we’ve seen in the past is that it’s a comprehensive union, meaning members span multiple departments within the company rather than a single part of the company.
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“We are the World of Warcraft Game Producers Guild: Blizzard’s first comprehensive alliance,” the organization announced in a tweet. “We are excited to join World of Warcraft’s quality assurance, art, sound, design, engineering and production sound for a Democratic workplace, we stand united for Azeroth at this critical moment in gaming! “Blizzard is a big name,” World of Warcraft senior producer Samuel Cooper said of unionized workers “We make great games, we have a niche in the industry, and I think it does a lot of good for us. Showing people a big, very successful, very long-established game,” he told IGN. The ability of the game to… be able to do that and be able to do that with all of our development teams, not just design or production and design or production design and engineering and art, but quality assurance is also considered across the board development partners and be treated right. We hope this is the beginning of a paradigm shift for the entire industry https://x.com/WoWGG_CWA/status/1816194652539871269.
He added that while there had been some interesting competition between Blizzard and Bethesda employees over union efforts, World of Warcraft employees were content with finishing second, saying, “In a friendly way Way, we saw who’s gonna squeak there first?
Microsoft issued a statement to Variety regarding union organizing: “We continue to support our employees’ right to choose how they are represented in the workplace, and we will negotiate in good faith with the CWA as we work to reach a collective bargaining agreement.”
The union’s next step will be contract negotiations with the company, which will decide what protections are offered to workers.
