Tue. Nov 5th, 2024

From today’s New York Times:

Organized labor claimed one of its biggest victories at a U.S. tech company on Tuesday, gaining a foothold among about 300 employees at a video game maker owned by Microsoft.

The Communications Workers of America, which will represent the employees, announced the result, and Microsoft issued a statement recognizing the outcome.

ā€œWe look forward to engaging in good faith negotiations as we work towards a collective bargaining agreement,ā€ the company said. Microsoft has no other unionized workers.

The unionization move at the video game maker, ZeniMax Media, which Microsoft acquired for about $7.5 billion in a deal that closed in 2021, did not involve a conventional union election run by the National Labor Relations Board.

Instead, the company allowed workers to express their preferencesĀ in two ways: They could sign a union authorization card, which some began doing in November, or they could vote anonymously through an online platform that was open during most of December.

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By Editor