America Union’s communication workers announced today that negotiation members of Zenimax members – the parent company of Bethesda and, thanks to an acquisition of $ 69 billion, a subsidiary of Microsoft – voted to authorize a strike against Microsoft. According to the CWA, this occurs after more than a year of missed negotiations for a first contract between the two.
The workers of Zenimax United-Cwa voted 94% so that its leaders authorized the strike, saying that Microsoft had failed to obtain a contract with them after almost two years of negotiations. They negotiated “better wages, improvements in the workplace and key concerns, in particular a lack of remote work options and the replacement by the work company in internal quality insurance with the outsourced workforce without notifying the union”.
The CWA previously filed an accusation of unfair work against Microsoft. He also organized one -day strikes, where workers from Zenimax United have left the company’s offices in Maryland and Texas. The union published a statement at the time saying: “We are not afraid to do what is necessary to ensure that Microsoft meets us at the negotiating table on key issues such as remote work options and outsourcing.”
The union member and the associate tester of the AQ Aubrey Litchfield said in a statement: “Paying your employees a habitable salary as a business of several billion dollars is the least that they could do; Finances. “”
A Microsoft spokesperson said in A declaration in the penis“We respect the team’s right to express their points of view and we are deeply determined to achieve a fair and fair resolution which recognizes the contributions of the teams. There has been substantial progress during negotiations, reaching provisional agreements on the majority of subjects at the table.”
