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And yet, the solutions you proposed in that letter did not meaningfully address our requests. You said you would do everything possible to work with employees in improving our workplace. In response to our demands, you wrote a letter to employees expressing a commitment to doing a better job of listening. Importantly, we demanded that this third party be selected by an employee-led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force. These are: (1) an end to forced arbitration in employment agreements, (2) the adoption of inclusive recruitment and hiring practices, (3) increases in pay transparency through compensation metrics, and (4) an audit of ABK policies and practices to be performed by a neutral third-party. We communicated a list of four demands aimed at protecting our most vulnerable workers. Our goal is for the executive leadership team to address their response to the California DFEH lawsuit, acknowledge the reality of working conditions across our organization, and commit to meaningful change at Activision Blizzard. Our request for action crosses studio lines, including workers from Activision, Beenox, Blizzard Entertainment, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software, and Vicarious Visions. We organized the #ActiBlizzWalkout at Blizzard Entertainment’s Irvine headquarters where more than 500 workers walked out and hundreds more participated virtually around the world. Last week, we took collective action to demand better working conditions for women and other marginalized groups at Activision Blizzard King (ABK) by writing an open letter signed by more than 3,000 current employees.
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That right remains endangered as the stories of abuse and mistreatment continue to grow in scope, and new accounts of harassment perpetrated by current Activision Blizzard employees have continued to emerge since the publication of the DFEH’s lawsuit. employees committed to defending our right to a safe and equitable workplace. We are The ABK Workers Alliance, an organized group of current Activision Blizzard, Inc.
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To CEO Bobby Kotick and the Activision Blizzard executive leadership team,
#Wilmer hale full#
Here's the full letter that the employee coalition sent over to IGN: An organized group of Activision Blizzard employees penned a letter to CEO Bobby Kotick on Tuesday affirming that this is unacceptable. There's still the matter of Activision's usage of a third-party law firm called WilmerHale, which has a reputation for union busting. However, not all is well over at the Irvine publisher. It's been an eventful day at Activision Blizzard with a total change in leadership within the Blizzard ranks.