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"We are ready to begin fighting for real change alongside our Diablo colleagues." Over 450 Microsoft-owned Blizzard Entertainment developers unionize.

More Blizzard Entertainment employees are unionizing, with over 450 workers on the Diablo franchise joining the efforts.

Windows Central

Fed up with 'living in fear' of mass layoffs, Diablo developers take action against Microsoft: 'We are ready to begin fighting for real change'

Microsoft has already recognized the union.

PC Gamer

"No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize

"I've witnessed the dread"

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Typhoon Podul Pummels Taiwan

Typhoon Podul pounded Taiwan on Wednesday, shutting down businesses in the south, grounding hundreds of flights and knocking out power for tens of thousands of households.

International Business Times

New US Law Could Force Call Centres to Reveal If You're Speaking to A Human or AI — and Punish Firms That Send Jobs Overseas

New bipartisan US legislation would require firms to disclose their use of AI in customer service calls, limit federal support for offshoring call centre jobs, and give consumers the choice to speak to a US-based human representative if preferred.

International Business Times UK

Why Is the Army Corps Still Harassing Idaho Landowners?

Idaho landowners are facing ruinous fines because the Army Corps of Engineers refuses to follow the Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act ruling in Sackett v. EPA.

Reason

ZeniMax QA testers face whiplash and "rancid" work morale following Microsoft's gaming layoffs — but the union still fights

ZeniMax Workers United ratified a historic contract with Microsoft just weeks before layoffs cut into the team, but the union is still pushing on.

Windows Central

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CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'

The media union once touted a positive relationship with Microsoft, but wave after wave of layoffs has changed its tune.

PC Gamer

'Overwatch 2' Developers Just Made A Historic Change

Game workers have formed another union at a Microsoft-owned studio, this time covering multiple departments at one of the most popular shooters around.

Inverse

Almost 200 members of Blizzard's Overwatch 2 team have unionized: "The biggest issue was the layoffs at the beginning of 2024"

This is the second wall-to-wall union to form at Blizzard since the World of Warcraft team organized in July 2024

GamesRadar

Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Blizzard form a new union: The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild

The Communications Workers of America says Microsoft has already recognized the union.

PC Gamer

Overwatch 2 developers at Blizzard Entertainment form union under Microsoft

The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard Entertainment has formed a "wall-to-wall" union under Microsoft.

Windows Central

Women want street lights, phone service and health care

A survey of women across NSW has identified the major issues they face in healthcare, personal safety and housing.

AAP

ZeniMax workers union votes to authorize a strike against Microsoft over stalled contract negotiations

After nearly two years of negotiations, a contract agreement still hasn't been reached.

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Windows Central

"We're done playing" — United Videogame Workers-CWA union formed for industry employees in the US and Canada

North American workers have formed the first gaming industry-wide union in collaboration with the CWA.

Capital & Main

The Southern Women Handling 1-800-MEDICARE Calls Still Want a Union

Federal call center workers continue their fight after the Biden administration dialed back support for it.

Latin Times

Supreme Court Leaves Users Disgusted After Rolling Back Clean Water Act's Raw Sewage Discharge Limitations: 'Poop Is Back On the Menu'

The Supreme Court weakened restrictions on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 decision to roll back provisions of 1972's Clean Water Act.

Fortune

JPMorgan Chase workers launch petition to halt 5-day back-to-office demand

The petition comes as some bank workers push to form a union.

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The Guardian - UK

British crime writer Mick Herron wins Crime Writers’ Association lifetime achievement award

The author of books such as Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road receives the prestigious Diamond Dagger award for his contribution to the genre

Evening Standard

Slow Horses creator wins crime writers award for ‘reinventing spy thrillers’

Mick Herron wrote the series of books centred on the motley crew of MI5 spies operating out of Slough House.

Fortune

Inside JPMorgan, employee backlash over 5 day RTO mandate gains steam

According to an organizer with the CWA, about a dozen JPMorgan Chase employees, representing groups from different areas of the bank all over the U.S., have contacted the union.

Fortune

JPMorgan faces internal revolt over RTO mandate—now talk of a Wells Fargo-style labor union is reportedly spreading

Bank employees are discreetly discussing whether to follow the lead from colleagues at Wells Fargo that organized under the umbrella of the CWA guild, according to Barron's.

The Guardian - UK

Anna Lo obituary

Northern Ireland’s first minority ethnic elected representative who helped create a new anti-racial discrimation law

Player One

Bethesda Workers Join Strike as Protest Against Planned Remote Work, Outsourcing Policies

Hundreds of Bethesda workers are planning to join a strike as protest against remote work and outsourcing policies.

PC Gamer

Hundreds of ZeniMax workers go on strike to protest Microsoft 'dragging their feet' on negotiations over job security and remote work

Employees have walked out at ZeniMax locations in Maryland and Texas.

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