ZeniMax Workers United would be the biggest union for game workers in North America, should a majority of QA workers vote in favor.
A group of around 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft's ZeniMax Media, the company that owns Bethesda Softworks, Arkane Studios, and id Software, announced they are forming a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), following in the footsteps of Raven Software and Blizzard Albany.
The group is claimed to include "a majority" of the company's QA testers across all US offices who are set to vote against or in favor of the unionization over the next four weeks via either signing union cards or voting through an electronic portal. If most employees vote in favor of forming a union, it will become the largest union for game workers in the US to date.
Previously, speaking of unions, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer stated that though he had never had experience working with them before, he recognizes "workers' needs to feel safe and heard and compensated fairly in order to do great work." In addition, in June, Microsoft pledged that it won't stand in its employees' way in case they would want to form or join a union.
And now, the company confirmed that it will "remain neutral" toward the ZeniMax union as well as provide "clear guidance to ZeniMax managers on neutrality," the CWA said.
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