About 300 workers at Microsoft Corp.’s ZeniMax Studios, known for popular video games Skyrim and Fallout, have begun organizing to form a union .
About 300 workers at Microsoft Corp.’s ZeniMax Studios, known for popular video games Skyrim and Fallout, have begun organizing to form a union in what would be the first at the software giant in the US.
Quality assurance employees at Maryland-based ZeniMax will be represented by the Communications Workers of America.
The labor movement is gaining steam in the gaming industry, and the ZeniMax action follows the creation of unions at two studios owned by Activision Blizzard Inc., which Microsoft is in the process of acquiring for $69 billion. Microsoft has pledged to remain neutral in the union negotiations.
The ZeniMax union is far larger than past efforts at Activision studios at Blizzard Albany in New York and Raven Software…
