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Blizzard Employees Call For Strike After Discrimination Lawsuit
Posted on 7/27/21 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 7/27/21 at 1:48 pm
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i'm a little torn on this. On one hand, blizz deserves everything coming its way. On the other, this will go over well in Cali and other left-leaning areas but fall flat elsewhere
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Employees at Activision Blizzard Inc. are calling for a walkout on Wednesday to protest the company’s responses to a recent sexual discrimination lawsuit and demanding more equitable treatment for underrepresented staff.
Last week, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued the publisher behind games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, detailing disturbing incidents of sexual harassment and assault and a culture in which women faced unequal pay and retaliation. Activision called the allegations false and distorted in a statement last week, and Fran Townsend, executive vice president for corporate affairs, sent a letter to staff echoing that claim.
Infuriated Activision employees have spoken out on social media, and more than 2,000 staff signed an open letter calling the company’s responses “abhorrent and insulting.” Now they’re planning a strike.
The walkout is being organized by a group of employees at the subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, where the majority of the lawsuit’s allegations were focused. In a statement to Bloomberg, the workers said their goal was to “improve conditions for employees at the company, especially women, and in particular women of color and transgender women, nonbinary people, and other marginalized groups.”
The strike will take place outside of Blizzard’s campus in Irvine, California, on Wednesday.
The employees are demanding:
That Activision ditch mandatory arbitration clauses “in all employee contracts, current and future.”
New practices for recruiting, interviewing, hiring and promotion that facilitate better representation “agreed upon by employees in a company-wide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion organization.”
The publication of data on relative compensation, promotion rates and salary ranges for employees “of all genders and ethnicities at the company.”
That a diversity task force be allowed to hire a third party to audit the company’s leadership, hierarchy and HR department. “It is imperative to identify how current systems have failed to prevent employee harassment, and to propose new solutions to address these issues.”
This is the second major organizing effort from Blizzard in about the past 12 months. Last year employees shared their salaries on a public spreadsheet and sent a letter of demands to management to ask for more equitable compensation. That action led to very little response, employees said.
Collective action is rare in the video-game industry, which has no unions in North America. A representative for the Blizzard employees organizing this walkout said they were not currently discussing unionizing.
i'm a little torn on this. On one hand, blizz deserves everything coming its way. On the other, this will go over well in Cali and other left-leaning areas but fall flat elsewhere
Posted on 7/27/21 at 2:01 pm to geauxtigers87
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i'm a little torn on this
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Posted on 7/27/21 at 2:54 pm to geauxtigers87
I agree with a few of their points like showing promotion percentages but...
Did they think just showing each other their salaries and sending it to the higher ups means they would automatically get a pay raise? Management saw it and said no. Simple as that. Move on or work somewhere else
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Last year employees shared their salaries on a public spreadsheet and sent a letter of demands to management to ask for more equitable compensation. That action led to very little response, employees said.
Did they think just showing each other their salaries and sending it to the higher ups means they would automatically get a pay raise? Management saw it and said no. Simple as that. Move on or work somewhere else
Posted on 7/27/21 at 5:36 pm to geauxtigers87
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
Posted on 7/28/21 at 12:24 am to geauxtigers87
I had a feeling the crazies would try to use this scandal as a launching pad. Women are getting sexually harassed so let's focus on our agenda of throwing out meritocracy in the name of forced diversity, not about the actual problem in the lack of accountability within the higher-ups when it comes to workplace behavior. As others have said, the promotions percentages are whatever. That's fine to ask for, but trying to parlay this into restructuring hiring practices to meet forced diversity quotas seems malicious to me. It doesn't sit right with me how they're trying to take the suffering of these women and use it as a weapon towards a completely unrelated agenda.
This in particular seems especially tone deaf as most of the victims in these allegations were not women of color or transgendered. They are absolute pros at making issues that aren't about them all about them.
Oh well, let Blizzard die. They made the bed, let them lie in it.
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“improve conditions for employees at the company, especially women, and in particular women of color and transgender women, nonbinary people, and other marginalized groups.”
This in particular seems especially tone deaf as most of the victims in these allegations were not women of color or transgendered. They are absolute pros at making issues that aren't about them all about them.
Oh well, let Blizzard die. They made the bed, let them lie in it.
This post was edited on 7/28/21 at 12:43 am
Posted on 7/28/21 at 12:52 am to geauxtigers87
Now we'll NEVER see Diablo 4.
Posted on 7/30/21 at 11:12 pm to geauxtigers87
I've hated Bliz since they jumped into geopolitical politics with the whole Hong Kong bs back around December 2019. If what happened is legit then it is wrong but everyone clutching their pearls over this are probably using products created with slave labor in some third world shite hole.
Posted on 8/1/21 at 2:05 am to geauxtigers87
It's not like blizzard was actually busy making new exciting games. So I guess this will fill their day.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 9:09 pm to geauxtigers87
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agreed upon by employees in a company-wide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion organization.”
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That a diversity task force be allowed to hire a third party to audit the company’s leadership, hierarchy and HR department
“In other words, we demand there be an Inquisition, and that you demonstrate your purity and faithfulness in the New Orthodoxy!”
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:28 am to geauxtigers87
This is messed up hopefully this doesn’t mean diversity in games too
If I wanted to have a shitty time and see diversity I’d go to Walmart
If I wanted to have a shitty time and see diversity I’d go to Walmart
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