• Blizzard Albany, formerly Vicarious Visions, announces unionization bid
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    Blizzard Albany, formerly Vicarious Visions, announces unionization bid

    Comment on this story Comment Blizzard Albany, a video game developer owned by Activision Blizzard, is going public with its unionization efforts. The quality assurance team at the Albany-based studio formerly known as Vicarious Visions — a unit made up of about 20 employees — has filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. Last Thursday, the workers asked Activision Blizzard management to voluntarily recognize their union. “I firmly believe that having the union is going to give us the power that we need to make our workplace better,” said Amanda Laven, associate test analyst at Blizzard Albany in an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s very…

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