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Following investigations, the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) has found that Activision Blizzard withheld raises…

Following investigations, the National Labour Relations Board has found that Activision Blizzard withheld raises for the QA testers at Raven Software campaigning to form a union., Activision Blizzard and the QA testers from Raven Software will now continue on with their negotiations to agree a collective bargaining agreement.

"It's part of their tactics, you know, hit them wherever they can, to put pressure on the company in order to reach an agreement with them and to stop violating the law." "Due to legal obligations under the [National Labour Relations Act] requiring employers not to grant wage increases while an election was pending, we could not institute new pay initiatives at Raven because they would be brand [sic] new kinds of compensation changes, which had not been planned beforehand.

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