In 2022, quality assurance testers at Call of Duty studio Raven Software became the first union to organize at a major American games company as the Game Workers Alliance-CWA. Today, after three years of negotiation, GWA-CWA members voted to ratify their first contract between the union and Microsoft.
According to a press release from the Communications Workers of America, which aided in the Raven unionization effort in 2022, the contract secures a guaranteed 10% wage increase over a period of two years, the elimination of crunch time and prolonged mandatory overtime, clear job descriptions and promotion processes, and additional worker protections.
