Raven’s QA workers’ winning the right to unionize was a short-lived victory; in the days since returning from their strike, Activision announced plans to split everyone up, and then revealed a larger strategy that’s aimed at crushing this movement before it’s allowed to take hold.
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There are those still operating under the delusion these are simply coincidences, that all that shuffling around is just regular corporate stuff, not explicitly aimed at halting the QA team’s unionisation efforts. I know you’re out there, you’ve messaged me about this! But you should read this message posted on an internal Slack by Activision’s Vice President of Quality Assurance Chris Arends.
The message was shared by ABetterABK founder and organizer Jessica Gonzalez, and reads:
That’s a lot, and it begins relatively harmlessly, so I’ll excerpt the stuff where he starts taking some real shit:
The words, “A union doesn’t do anything to help us produce world-class games,” are going to be sticking in my mouth for days. That’s how disconnected these men and women at the top of Activision are, how driven they are solely by profits and lines going up, how unconcerned they are with things like the well-being of their workers.
