Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts

“the right to be ‘recalled’ into open positions at any Blizzard bargaining unit for 14 months”

Two years of bargaining for about 1,900 workers, and the terms are concrete. Recall rights for 14 months after a layoff, four extra weeks of severance regardless of tenure, credit by name on every title you worked on, and a requirement that Microsoft bargain over AI in the workplace. Studios have handed out mass layoffs for a decade with none of that. Now one of them has to negotiate first.