Activision Blizzard has acquired yet one more unfair labor grievance. The Communications Staff of America filed with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board on Monday, alleging that Activision Blizzard chief communications officer Lulu Cheng Meservey despatched a message by way of Slack that appeared hostile to the unionization efforts led by QA testers from Blizzard Albany. She posted the message on October 18 to Activision Blizzard’s #ABK-press Slack room, which accommodates round 18,000 staff. Quickly after the grievance submitting, former Activision worker Jessica Gonzalez posted the message in its entirety on Twitter, resulting in at the very least one person accusing Meservey of advancing “right-wing speaking factors.”
In her message, Meservey thought of collective bargaining a sluggish course of that might fail to deliver the advantages that direct dialogue between the employees and the employer supposedly would. Moreover, she claimed that collective bargaining would bar union staff from getting the wage raises and advantages that non-union staff would usually obtain. She additionally mentioned that direct dialogue has already resulted in a number of the advantages and raises that the union staff have sought.
Workers weren’t joyful
Regardless of having advocated for direct dialogue, Meservey barred workers from responding to her message on Slack. Workers might, nevertheless, nonetheless price the message and reply by way of emojis, which they took benefit of in precisely the style that one would anticipate. Based on Washington Put up reporter Shannon Liao, Meservey acknowledged the downvotes and destructive emojis she acquired by this response: “I can hear the booing from right here! And have registered the upset canine emojis.”
The Communications Staff of America labor grievance referred to Meservey’s message as “anti-union propaganda” that successfully threatened Activision Blizzard workers with low pay and different setbacks in the event that they unionize. This marks the fourth in a collection of labor complaints that Activision Blizzard has confronted since final yr.
