{"id":112761,"date":"2024-07-19T23:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T23:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/bethesda-game-studios-workers-have-unionized\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T23:38:35","slug":"bethesda-game-studios-workers-have-unionized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/bethesda-game-studios-workers-have-unionized\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">More than 200 developers at Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind hit franchises like <em>The Elder Scrolls<\/em> and <em>Fallout, <\/em>have unionized with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). 241 workers, including \u201cartists, engineers, programmers and designers,\u201d have signed union authorization cards or \u201cindicated that they wanted union representation via an online portal,\u201d according to a CWA press release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Microsoft has recognized the union, the CWA says; the company has already recognized unions formed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/8\/24094602\/activision-blizzard-qa-workers-unionizing-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activision QA workers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/3\/23537455\/microsoft-has-formally-recognized-the-zenimax-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZeniMax Studios QA workers<\/a>. The CWA describes this as \u201cthe first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio,\u201d meaning that all eligible job titles will be represented by the CWA instead of just one type of worker, according to the CWA\u2019s Catalina Brennan-Gatica. (Until now, all of the unions at Microsoft-owned studios have only been formed by QA workers.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The Bethesda workers will be members of CWA Local 2108 in Maryland and CWA Local 6215 in Texas. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Microsoft didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/19\/24202271\/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize-cwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 developers at Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind hit franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, have unionized with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). 241 workers, including \u201cartists, engineers, programmers and designers,\u201d have signed union authorization cards or \u201cindicated that they wanted union representation via an online portal,\u201d according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}