{"id":837852,"date":"2024-07-27T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837852"},"modified":"2024-07-27T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:17:37","slug":"microsofts-world-of-warcraft-development-workers-are-unionising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/27\/microsofts-world-of-warcraft-development-workers-are-unionising\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s World of Warcraft development workers are unionising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York : More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; are unionizing. The game&#8217;s development team employees &#8211; which include designers, engineers, artists, quality assurance testers and more &#8211; are joining the Communications Workers of America, the union announced Wednesday. CWA says Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft&#8217;s publisher, has recognized the union.<\/p>\n<p>The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild &#8211; CWA Union is the first wall-to-wall union seen at Activision Blizzard and the largest of this kind at a Microsoft-owned studio to date, according to CWA. It also builds on an expansion of organized labor seen among Microsoft video game workers since the tech giant&#8217;s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York : More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; are unionizing. The game&#8217;s development team employees &#8211; which include designers, engineers, artists, quality assurance testers and more &#8211; are joining the Communications Workers of America, the union announced Wednesday. CWA says Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft&#8217;s publisher, has recognized the union. The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild &#8211; CWA Union is the first wall-to-wall union seen at Activision Blizzard and the largest of this kind at a Microsoft-owned studio to date, according to CWA. It also builds on an expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}