Hundreds of ZeniMax Workers United-Communications Workers of America (ZWU-CWA)
members have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike.
ZeniMax Media is a Microsoft-owned video game production company known for titles such as Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. ZWU-CWA was formed in 2023—an effort of Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA)—after a supermajority of over 300 quality assurance workers in Maryland and Texas voted to organize. The bargaining unit has been fighting for higher wages, improved remote work options and the end to unilateral outsourcing of in-house quality assurance work.
“Despite being one of the world’s largest corporations, we’ve had to continuously fight for what should be bare minimum,” said ZWU-CWA Local 2108 member and associate QA tester Aubrey Litchfield. “Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing; however when addressed at the bargaining table, Microsoft acts as though we’re asking for too much. Our in-house contractors have been working on minimal wages with no benefits, including no paid sick time. Workers are choosing not to start families because of the uncertainty of finances. We’ve released multiple titles while working fully remote. When will enough be enough?”
AFL-CIO DAILY BRIEF