Instead of speaking with the employees, the chief director of business, Brian Bulatao, sent an email to all employees of the company. According to Bulatao, a union would be a terrible idea, but it’s got stuck in the way of the changes that the employees want. There’s a portion of the released email. As soon as you decide your future, we waited for your mind and examine the consequences of your signature on the binding legal document that CWA has presented to you. Once you’ve signed the document, you’ll have signed the contract with the CWA you have the exclusive right to represent yourself, all rights and conditions of work, in order to bargain with you. That means that you’ll be turned over to the CWA for the whole process of working together. And this is after a long time ago, Bulatao said Activision Blizzard was working for the future, and clearly listening to those desires, but not in a direct dialogue between employees and management. This is hilarious given that management has had a better time listening to employees. And it gets better. We make it easier to achieve our workplace culture goals through an active, transparent dialogue between leaders and employees that we can act quickly. That’s the best path in the past, by signing an electronic form that was offered by CWA or awaiting the outcome of a legally-mandated and regulated bargaining process. In spite of the lack of job security for contract employees, that is what everybody knows, the email makes the process much more unprofessional and clearly threatening to employees of the company. The question is a huge issue, and it’s not wonderable after the release of the email by Jessica Gonzalez, a senior test analyst. Just because Activision Blizzard talked about making changes, its work wasn’t done but was nothing of the essence of this process. The CWA, the union that Blizzard employees ended up signing with, so they could join together to get better treatment, also voiced the matter by twitter. This campaign is wasteful. This is not intended for a specific purpose, but is intended to address problems such as the victim of sexual harassment. Our hope is to management realise and see their only viable path forward is to provide solutions for the righteous demand made after the initial walkout, and to ensure a long worker voice throughout company. It’s disappointing to see Activision Blizzard manager at another choice point, when they could have done the right thing, double down and continue to take the low road. 1/ CODE-CWA (@CODE-CWA) December 10-2021 One could think Activision Blizzard management would know better, but as we had seen, their judgement wasn’t the best, especially in the past. For those who want to support Blizzard workers, they can donate their strike money on gofundme. As of now, 305,224 USD has been raised to pay for wages while workers strike. SOURCE
