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blizzard workers had to fight tooth and nail for years, but they finally did it: they secured a union contract not just for one team, but for all unionized units--warcraft, overwatch, diablo, and more
![“We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the pressure on,” Paul Cox, senior game designer on World of Warcraft, told Aftermath.
"I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment."
Prior to spring of this year, the WoW team, which unionized in 2024, had gotten the lion's share of bargaining time. Other units found themselves stuck in the mud. Higher-ups were effectively stalling the whole process—unfortunately nothing new for unionized workers under Microsoft’s umbrella.
"For this whole year of bargaining on the Diablo side—and I imagine on the rest of the units as well—we received so few [bargaining] dates, but we kind of had the understanding that whatever WoW was able to win would at least influence and set the floor for the rest of our units,” Diablo senior environment artist Mahreen Fatima told Aftermath. “We adopted this messaging about how WoW's wins are our wins, so we should be out there mobilizing with them. But truly, I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment this last month to finally be able to say, 'OK, yes, we are willing to extend this contract to everyone.' We really did not have any indication that we could get this done until last month."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreih6u6gzajbd63dovnmlnc43z5g6i35d3n735rrdkopipyjopkl72e)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 7h agoAfter years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
[ #tennocreate, #warframe, #artlog. ] The Devil's Triad... but make it wuxia / xianxia. Because I've been re-reading all my danmei again, erm...
reminder that level-5 is pro genA/I and this layton is A/I slop :)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6h agoProfessor Layton and the New World of Steam out Dec 10
i want to go piss but loki is having insane velcro time the past days
my alliance raid just letting me do whatever the hell i want
seeing the mh twink oomf likes and im nodding sagely, i get it
i miss my own ocs. what are those little guys up to. they should call me
There was that flats stage during my last painting that I thought looked really cool, and since I love experimenting, I thought I'd do a proper picture with that look! Featuring my boy Amir 💙 #warframe
Friendly reminder that any "weird" or "lazy" product you see is probably an accessibility device being mass-marketed to abled people to reach production quotas. Yeah snuggies were marketed like people were in a cult. They were made for wheelchair users.
@ warframe fandom please stop with the aids jokes every time raids are brought up it’s a horrible stigmatised illness so many people live with… its not 2006 lets not bring that energy back…
icb me AND the cats are overstimulated and get pissy and annoyed , these truly are my sons
