The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough. “My friend called me crying, saying, ‘I just lost my job,’” recalled Erin Hall, one of the testers who stayed on. “None of us saw that coming.”The testers conferred with one another over the weekend and announced a strike on Monday. Just after they returned to work seven weeks later, they filed paperwork to hold a union election. Raven never rehired the laid-off workers, but the other testers won their election in May 2022, forming the first union at a major U.S. video game company.

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Persons: Raven, ‘, ’ ”, Erin Hall Organizations: Activision Blizzard Locations: Wisconsin, U.S