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chicken scientist; 🐓 guy trying to draw robots 🤖 ✏️ I love OW (💛💜) and Transformers (💙🤍) might be a straight trans guy or nb lesbian, I don’t know (he/him) 🏳️⚧️ adult #overwatchfanart #laurenceart #owlore
We hope everyone is as excited as we are for BlizzCon this weekend! Keep an eye out for these limited run union pins. Each one representing a different organized CWA unit within Blizzard. Good luck collecting them all! Thank you @tsepish.bsky.social for helping us make these real!
Ogubi is my favorite autism creature
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Yay! I finally got my invite @transrights.northsky.social and migrated from BlueSky to NorthSky. Been wanting to migrate for months now just so that I can ensure a safer social space, especially since how Meta still hasn't given back my Threads account. Thank you my northern neighbors.
From: Zima Blue (2019), dir. Robert Valley, Passion Animation Studios
We are proud to announce the ratification of a historic contract covering nearly 1,900 workers at Blizzard Entertainment, including represented workers on the World of Warcraft team. Today we stand as One Blizzard United. cwa-union.org/news/release...
Blizzard Entertainment Workers Ratify Historic Video Game Contracts with CWA
Blizzard Entertainment workers represented by CWA voted to ratify historic union contracts with the Microsoft-owned company, securing an unprecedented victory for the video game industry following the...
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#transformers #fanart #megatron Gladiator days are just a long forgotten history but he still remembers how to pose for the fans 💅
BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.
Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees
Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.
gamedeveloper.com
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 · 2d agoAfter years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
