"Today, we are on strike," ZeniMax Workers United posted on X. "We are not afraid to do what's necessary to make sure that Microsoft meets us at the bargaining table over key issues like remote work options and outsourcing."
Remote work policies seem to be a major sticking point for Microsoft's video game unions. In the immediate outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, many video game companies instituted flexible work-from-home policies that they've recently begun rolling back.
ZeniMax Workers United is made up of approximately 300 quality assurance testers. When the union was formally recognized in January 2023, it became parent company Microsoft's first union and, at the time, was the largest video game union in the United States.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the organizing committee that supports ZeniMax Workers United along with multiple video game unions in the US, has also filed an unfair labor complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over contracting out work without notifying the union.
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