Another massive union has formed at Blizzard Entertainment, this time consisting of over 450 developers from Team 3, the group responsible for the Diablo franchise. Formed under the Communication Workers of America, this Diablo union is one of the largest wall-to-wall organizations that has formed at Blizzard over the last several years.
In 2022, the quality assurance team from Raven Software formed the Game Workers Alliance, the very first union in all of Activision Blizzard. Over the next several years, thousands of other employees have banded together to form similar unions across its Warcraft and Overwatch teams.
Now, Diablo has finally joined the list of Blizzard IPs that have begun to form unions. According to the CWA, as of August 28, over 450 developers from Diablo’s Team 3 have formed a union, with an overwhelming majority in favor of the motion. Consisting of the entire Diablo development team, this wall-to-wall union will offer greater protections to these employees in light of recent layoffs at Microsoft, and should hopefully provide them further options to fight for better wages, rights, and benefits.
The newest union at Blizzard is one of the largest wall-to-wall unions in all of Microsoft,...
