Activision-Blizzard QA walkout spreads to other studios in its second day

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Members of the quality assurance squad at Phone call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software package staged a walkout on Mon to dissent the layoffs of coworkers proclaimed late last week. The walkout continues today, and has dilated to include other studios, who are "standing in solidarity" with the Raven QA squad.

"Today workers from Predate QA are walking out for the indorsement day in a row," the ABK Workers Alliance tweeted. "They are joined by workers from QATX, QAMN, and Blizzard QA. These workers are standing in solidarity with the statement Corvus corax QA put forward yesterday."

Today workers from Raven QA are close out for the second twenty-four hour period in a row. They are connected by workers from QATX, QAMN, and Blizzard QA. These workers are standing in solidarity with the program line Raven QA cast forward yesterday. They are using the social media hashtag #WeAreRavenDecember 7, 2021

QATX and QAMN are Activision Blizzard studios located in Texas and M. According to the company's studio page, the Minnesota studio is "home to Activision's largest QA team." Employees taking contribution in the walkout are sharing their participation and support using the #WeAreRaven hashtag.

"It feels like Activision's toxic culture is starting to bleed into Raven," a Raven QA tester told the Washington Post. "The people who were relinquish seem to have been chosen altogether indiscriminately, and the relief of us have survivor's guilt because we bon our teammates deserve to still be here. We're wholly just incredibly heartbroken."

This will be the third walkout of Activision Blizzard employees in recent months. The first took locate in July favorable a cause filed by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which alleged widespread sexual harassment, discrimination, and a "fraternity boy" refinement at the company; the second occurred in November to demand CEO Bobby Kotick's removal, after a follow-up theme alleged that Kotick had been aware of the issues but did not act to address them.

Today, completely of ABK QA joins Raven in solidarity. We are close out because our jobs are invaluable and it's unaccepted for a multi million dollar company to think of workers livelihoods to get better numbers in Q4. Today #WeAreRaven 💙December 7, 2021

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In reply to the demand from protesters that the laid-off Raven employees comprise reinstated and all members of the QA team be made awash-time employees, Activision Blizzard aforesaid in a program line that IT is "converting approximately 500 temporary workers to full-time employees in the forthcoming months." Nonetheless, arsenic a part of that process, 20 contracted employees at Activision studios will not have their contracts renewed.

Later in the day, A Better ABK same that all of the central QA workers at Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War developer Treyarch had walked out in support of Raven employees.

In an unprecedented picture of love and solidarity, all of Treyarch's center QA has walked come out of the closet. Thank you, for your devotion to your peers and bettering this industry. #WeareRaven #ABetterABKDecember 7, 2021

I've reached out to Activision Blizzard for more information, and will update if I have a respond.