Link: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/blizzard-entertainment-workers-ratify-historic-video-game-contracts-cwa

guardrails around AI usage

reinforce several workplace benefits that set industry-wide standards for video game workers in the

wage increases,

grievance procedures

a three-day in-office hybrid workweek

“just cause” protections

remote work

disability accommodations

the contracts now require Blizzard to discuss, evaluate, and bargain over the usage of artificial intelligence in the workplace

give workers the right to be “recalled” into open positions across any Blizzard bargaining unit for 14 months from the date of their layoff announcement

an extra 4 weeks of severance for union workers regardless of their tenure

On one hand, great to see workers defending their rights. On the other, in an ideal world they would stop working for a company as crooked as Blizzard, but realistically they're not ready to survive going indie in this economy

realistically they’re not ready to survive going indie in this economy

no one is inside this framework can.