Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard enforced a social media policy that conflicted with workers’ legal rights and illegally threatened workers in the policy’s enforcement, a federal government agency said on Monday.
Unless Activision settles, the Los Angeles-based mostly regional director of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board will difficulty a complaint, a spokesperson of the NLRB mentioned in a statement.
The NLRB had been seeking into allegations introduced to the company previous September by labor union Communications Staff of The usa.
On Monday in Wisconsin, a small group of top quality assurance Activision Blizzard staff voted 19-3 for signing up for the Communications Staff of The united states, according to the NLRB.
The union has progressively centered in latest many years on arranging non-union personnel in the tech and movie sport industries.
The “Call of Duty” videogame maker said on Monday the allegations have been false.
“These allegations are untrue. Personnel may possibly and do discuss freely about these place of work concerns with no retaliation, and our social media plan expressly incorporates employees’ NLRB rights,” a company spokesperson claimed.
“Our social media policy explicitly states that it ‘does not restrict staff members from participating in the conversation of details shielded by legislation, like for case in point, legal rights of workforce in the United States guarded by the Countrywide Labor Relations Act,'” the spokesperson claimed.
In current months, Activision Blizzard employees have banded alongside one another to test to impact the company’s foreseeable future, together with staging a walkout and circulating a petition calling for the removal of Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick. Microsoft declared plans to acquire Activision in January.
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