Videogame Studio Known as ‘Proletariat’ Declines to Acknowledge Union

An nameless reader shares a report from the Washington Submit:

Workers at Activision Blizzard-owned online game studio Proletariat — whose identify is a time period for the working class — introduced their intention to type a union in December of final yr. “Properly, what’d you anticipate?” the Proletariat Employees Alliance wrote on Twitter at the time. Earlier this week, nevertheless, Proletariat management shared an replace: As an alternative of voluntarily recognizing the union, it would conduct an nameless vote by means of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board.

Proletariat proprietor Activision Blizzard has been accused of using union-busting techniques in its negotiations with two different subsidiaries which have voted to unionize, Raven Software program and Blizzard Albany.