Raven Software announces structural changes after its unionization

The strike of Raven Software , the study of Activision that last week began its unionization process, has announced structural changes within your Testers team, in charge of quality control.

Members of Quality Assurance, who have been on strike for several weeks to the successful vote of unionization, will change their relationship with other departments within the study, as reported by director Brian Rafael in a letter published by Game Report: «I am Excited to share that our quality control colleagues will be integrated directly into several teams throughout the study, including animation, art, design, audio, production and engineering », something that apparently is the norm within these Activision studies. «It is more important than ever that we encourage greater integration and coordination throughout the study; Integration will allow it, Rafael wrote.

A spokesman for the Activision itself has reaffirmed that this change will improve the collaborative work of the different teams, and it is the next step in a process that has been carefully considered and in process for a while. This restructuring, explain, will serve to offer the best coordination of its class in real-time service operations.

However, the company exceeded the deadline to voluntarily recognize this union (00:00 in the past night), and the 34 officially syndicated employees will present a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent government agency, The recognition of unionization above Activision.

The union group, in fact, has published on Twitter a statement in which they have manifested that they feel disappointed that Raven Software and Activision Blizzard have refused to defend the rights of workers before their refusal when accepting the labor union. This was an opportunity for the company to show a real commitment to establish new and improved standards for workers. Instead, Activision Blizzard has opted to make a hurried restructuring announcement to try to hamper our right to organize ourselves»

More than 70% of Raven Software workers have confirmed to be in favor of this union represent them, so it seems clear that the NLRB will allow the process to go ahead.