The Lionbridge layoffs come during a huge wave of layoffs across the video game industry, during which around 6,400 workers lost their jobs in 2023 and 2024, including 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees in January.
The unfair labor practice charge filed Monday also alleges that Lionbridge offered workers severance agreements with terms that are illegal under the National Labor Relations Act. The press release said that these agreements included requirements “to agree to overly broad confidentiality terms,” which the National Labor Relations Board ruled unlawful last year.
“We do much the same work that union-represented Activision QA employees do, and Microsoft should make sure that everyone working on its games is treated with respect in line with its labor principles, including employees of contractors,” Bussabarger said in a statement.
Off topic; Lemmy related.
I am on lemmy.ca and seeing this as a pinned post in /c/all. Anyone else seeing this?
Seeing the same thing. Weird.
Same. Had to hide it. Tired of it being the first thing i see 100x a day.
Did they pull it? I’m not seeing it. Wild though.
Sorry, we had some issues related to Lemmy 0.19.4 about pinning and unpinning posts, and this one might have slipped through by mistake while trying to fix it.
It should be fixed :)
Thanks, no worries. I wondered why there was an uptick in traffic, now I know.
It got unpinned today somehow. I ended up filtering the post like others did.
I messaged the lemmy.ca admins yesterday around 7pm. Maybe that worked.
I think it did, someone said there was a bug with the new version that was pinning and unpinning posts. I bet that was fun to hunt down.