Activision Blizzard director charged by union team of ‘anti-union propaganda’ in Slack

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After Activision Blizzard primary interactions policeman Lulu Cheng Meservey released an affirmed “company-wide Slack message disparaging [Activision Blizzard workers’] union,” the Communications Workers of America has actually submitted a brand-new unreasonable labor problem with the National Labor Relations Board.

The cost, submitted Monday, affirms that Meservey published “anti-union propaganda” in the #ABK-press Slack space and also to an approximated 18,000 employees on Oct. 18. The message was later published to Twitter, where Twitter individuals charged her of “pushing right-wing talking points,” according to Kotaku. In that message, Meservey discussed the NLRB’s choice to permit Blizzard Albany employees to elect on a union.

In the Slack message, Meservey is claimed to have actually asserted that cumulative negotiating is sluggish, which the procedure would certainly maintain employees from obtaining rewards or pay rises, to name a few points. The problem states complying with those remarks employees were incapable to reply to the message through message, so they interacted their feedback with emojis; The Washington Post’s Shannon Liao claimed Meservey was “met with negative emojis,” which Meservey later on recognized: “I can hear the booing from here! And have registered the disappointed dog emojis.”

CWA, through its unreasonable labor cost, claimed Meservey’s “anti-union” message broke employees’ civil liberties. You can review the complete declaring listed below.

This is Activision Blizzard’s 4th ongoing unfair labor complaint filed with the NLRB because 2021. A firm representative has actually not reacted to Polygon’s ask for remark.

Blizzard Albany QA employees, who won the right to vote on a union last week, will certainly have their tallies trusted Nov. 18. Activision Blizzard employees’ public union press started in January after Raven Software QA employees introduced their intent to unionize. Those employees won their union in May.

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Source: Polygon