{"id":183823,"date":"2026-02-02T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:40:13","slug":"blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s quality assurance workers finally have a union contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract-162614979.html\">Blizzard&#8217;s quality assurance workers finally have a union contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract-162614979.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract-162614979.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 11:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quality assurance workers at Blizzard&#8217;s Albany and Austin locations have ratified a union contract after almost three years of negotiation with Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li>The new agreement covers 60 workers ensuring guaranteed pay increases over its three-year term, fair credit recognition, and discrimination-free disability accommodations.<\/li>\n<li>The contract restricts mandatory overtime (crunch) and offers protection for immigrant workers against unfair discipline and loss of seniority while streamlining the legal verification process.<\/li>\n<li>New rules surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace have been included in the contract.<\/li>\n<li>The contract is viewed as a significant step toward improving conditions for video game workers across various levels, as stated by Blizzard Albany quality analyst Brock Davis. The unionization is part of a broader movement within Microsoft\u2019s game divisions, with other groups like ZeniMax and Raven Software also ratifying union contracts. <\/li>\n<li>This marks the third union agreement at Microsoft following the unionization of certain Blizzard divisions over the last year, including teams working on Overwatch and Diablo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard&#8217;s quality assurance workers finally have a union contract https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/blizzards-quality-assurance-workers-finally-have-a-union-contract-162614979.html Publish Date: 2026-02-02 11:26:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/BXnWq_yREYruxuRVZZ773Q--~B\/aD02NzU7dz0xMjAwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/blizzard_3071.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-183823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183825,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183823\/revisions\/183825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}