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Its been more than a month since publisher Activision Blizzard fired 12 of Raven Software's quality assurance testers despite previously promising them new contracts, and now current employees have officially announced their unionization with Communication Workers of America. Under this wedlock, 34 members of the staff have formed a group known equally Game Workers Brotherhood in the endeavor to exist voluntarily recognized past the publisher.

"Quality Assurance is an essential role of any software development procedure. However, quality balls testers are consistently undervalued, nether-compensated, and overworked," the grouping's new Twitter account wrote Fri morning. In tweets that followed, the grouping points to several issues that they hope are resolved within the visitor earlier returning to work, such as the lack of a healthy work schedule, diversity, and transparency from leadership.

via Game Workers Alliance's Twitter account

Every bit the Washington Post reported, "several dozen" QA workers now await to keep their strike for a amend work environment for a sixth consecutive week. The Communication Workers of America has previously noted the strike won't end anytime soon, as it claims Activision Blizzard has just used "surveillance and intimidation tactics, including hiring notorious wedlock busters" since the employees started to revolt.

Furthermore, CWA's secretary-treasurer, Sara Steffens, has publicly asked Activision Blizzard to respect the Raven employees and pointed out that a collective bargaining agreement is in the all-time interest of both the workers represented and the quality of the developer's games. Currently, that does announced to exist the instance, as Raven Software'due south Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific has been scrutinized by fans for its lack of quality of life gameplay updates since the workers began striking. So much and so, Raven announced the delay of the game's next DLC in guild to prioritize much-needed patches.