Videogame Studio Known as ‘Proletariat’ Declines to Acknowledge Union

An nameless reader shares a report from the Washington Publish:

Employees at Activision Blizzard-owned online game studio Proletariat — whose title is a time period for the working class — introduced their intention to kind a union in December of final 12 months. “Properly, what’d you anticipate?” the Proletariat Employees Alliance wrote on Twitter on the time. Earlier this week, nevertheless, Proletariat management shared an replace: As an alternative of voluntarily recognizing the union, it’s going to conduct an nameless vote by way 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.