Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

More than 450 game developers on Blizzard Diablo The team trained a union, making it one of the largest and last groups of Microsoft workers to do so. The new union includes game developers, artists, designers, engineers and support staff through the Diablo Franchise, according to the press release from the communications workers of America (CWA), which voted “strongly in favor” to be represented by the CWA.

THE Diablo The team seeks to improve remuneration, employment safety and working conditions within the framework of their parent company in Microsoft. More than 3,500 Microsoft employees are now in CWA unions, including more than 500 World of Warcraft The developers who formed the first Blizzard wall wall union last year. Microsoft dismissed up to 9,100 employees earlier this year and 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox in 2024.

“With each mass cycle of mass dismissals, I saw the dread of my colleagues strengthen because it seems that no amount of hard work is enough to protect us,” said Kelly Yeo, member of the Organizing Committee of Diablo Union. “This is only the first step so that we join a movement spreading in an industry that is tired of living in fear.”