Overview
- Workers at the Doom developer voted 165 in favor at a roughly 185-person Texas studio to form a wall-to-wall unit covering developers, artists, programmers, and more.
- The new bargaining unit is affiliated with CWA Local 6215 in Richardson, Texas.
- Organizers identified protecting remote work, improving benefits, and setting safeguards for responsible use of AI as top priorities.
- The vote expands unionization across Microsoft-owned game studios, with nearly 4,000 Microsoft workers now represented, according to the CWA.
- Collective bargaining begins next, a phase that has taken other Microsoft-area unions many months or years to secure a first contract.