Bethesda Officially Becomes the First Microsoft Game Studio to Fully Unionize
Bethesda Officially Becomes the First Microsoft Game Studio to Fully Unionize
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Nice. Good for them
This is huge. Microsoft has recognized the union instead of fighting it too. We’ll see how it plays out, but this could be the start of something huge for the industry.
I’m so excited for anyone in it, if there are any industries that benefit enormously from unions it’s ones that are creative leaning, where employers tend to abuse their employees even worse because of how much they want to work in the industry and how many people are often trying to get into it.
For anyone curious, there has been a union at Bethesda since Jan 2023, but it’s now a fully union shop just 1.5 years later. Which is a very different thing when it’s fully union, and gives them much more bargain power.
The next big step is to actually negotiate their first contract with MS, and that’s when we’ll see how things really work themselves out.
Everyone should be 100% on board with this.