The American Prospect | Activision Workers Fight to Unionize

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KI Associate Director, Lane Windham, is quoted in The American Prospect in a piece on the ongoing unionization efforts of Activision workers. Read the full article here.

“Management has been dusting off the anti-union playbook,” Lane Windham, professor at Georgetown University, told me. An example of which are the mandatory anti-union meetings (new window) for workers, but also general (new window) anti-union propaganda.

Like many organizing efforts, Activision workers are at a disadvantage, because federal labor law does not facilitate easy unionizing. Plus, “there are no penalties for [companies] breaking the law,” Windham said.