{"id":1061,"date":"2025-06-20T02:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zenimax-and-microsoft-ratify-union-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:16:46","slug":"zenimax-and-microsoft-ratify-union-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zenimax-and-microsoft-ratify-union-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"ZeniMax and Microsoft ratify union agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Members of the ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union have ratified the contract agreement with parent company Microsoft. This agreement with the union representing the video game studio&rsquo;s quality assurance employees marks the first time Microsoft has entered into any union contract in the US. ZeniMax Studios is probably best known for its work on <em>The Elder Scrolls Online<\/em>. Stephen Totilo first reported on this news; we&rsquo;ve reached out to Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America for additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>As with many organizing efforts, this step has been a long time coming. The group of employees <ins>voted<\/ins> to unionize in 2023, and Microsoft immediately recognized ZeniMax Workers United-CWA following the vote results. Microsoft also made its policy of neutrality toward union organizing at ZeniMax <ins>official<\/ins> in 2024. The QA workers from ZeniMax and Microsoft reached a <ins>tentative contract<\/ins> this May.<\/p>\n<p>The contract includes provisions for wage increases and minimum salaries, as well as industry-specific content such as a clearer crediting policy recognizing the role of QA and protections for the employees regarding use of AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>ZeniMax and Microsoft ratify union agreement<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union have ratified the contract agreement with parent company Microsoft. This agreement with the union representing the video game studio&rsquo;s quality assurance employees marks the first time Microsoft has entered into any union contract in the US. ZeniMax Studios is probably best known for its work on The Elder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zenimax-and-microsoft-ratify-union-agreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;ZeniMax and Microsoft ratify union agreement&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}