Kate Anderson #GeneralStrikeNow

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why, exactly, are your games not subject to union contracts? that seems like information that is very important here

Second court knocks down Donald Trump's "cruel" gender-affirming care ban - LGBTQ Nation His order has been blocked nationwide.

Second court knocks down Donald Trump’s “cruel” gender-affirming care ban

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I got temporarily banned from posting on Twitter because I told a Nazi to go follow his leader. Did the Nazi get muted or banned for saying that Hitler was right and parroting eugenics ideology? Lol no

when I was working at Activision we found out our IT guy put hidden cameras in the bathroom. shortly after I got over the trauma of that and started using the bathrooms at work again, I got groped by a co-worker in one.

that was pretty fucking real to me.

If the people in positions of power refuse to protect us, we must protect each other. We must look out for one another, and that's exactly what we did and are doing.
Workers hold the power, not executives. We are the ones who make the company and the games what they are.

We could have worked together with executives to make ABK the best company it could be, but instead they met us with aggression, intimidation, and a refusal to listen or be empathetic to the struggles of their employees.

This is only a small look into the harmful actions of executives during the lawsuits and union organizing. I am sure my fellow organizers have many, many other stories of the way executives downplayed serious situations or caused harm themselves

And who could forget the Cosby Suite? A hotel room where executives would lure women and take advantage of them sexually.

Bobby, who had in the past made death threats to his assistant. Who downplayed the severity of the harassment and abuse at every chance he had to speak on the issues

Remembering Bobby Kotick, who made Francis Townsend send a scathing email calling the lawsuit "truly meritless and irresponsible”. We later learned that Bobby himself wrote the letter and made Fran take the fall for his despicable words.

Remembering how Jen Oneal, the first female Co-President of Blizzard, resigned because she was being paid less than her male counterpart, Mike Ybarra, and felt "tokenized, marginalized, and discriminated against."

Remembering Mike Ybarra, who said in an All Hands meeting that if "workers believe that executives make more than them, they're living in a myth."

Remembering how every single employee got pulled into a slack channel titled "ABK Facts" whose sole purpose was to dispense anti-union talking points to the entire company. Modern day captive audience meeting.

Remembering how organizers had a meeting with Daniel Alegre (then COO of ABK) prior to a walkout. We came prepared with an agenda and talking points. Dude interrupted and stalled at every opportunity.

Remembering how Brian Bulatao (then CAO of ABK) singled out one of my fellow union organizers and called them out of the blue. He proceeded to drop that he had "connections in the CIA." Clearly intimidation.

Most of the time we were talked over or ignored completely. ABK leadership had multiple chances to work with us to create a better workplace prior to unionization. They chose to intimidate and ignore instead

At every turn we were met with an unwillingness to create concrete and actionable goals to improve the workplace. What we got instead was (at best) empty promises to try and placate us or (at worst) the executives themselves utilizing their influence to intimidate.

Myself and my colleagues met with executive leadership of ABK multiple times to discuss the ways in which the current policies could be improved to create a safer and harassment-free workplace.

Today, Monday February 10th 2025, CWA Local 7250 filed Unfair Labor Practice charges against Activision with the National Labor Relations Board in Minneapolis. The ULP is in regards to the unjust termination of Allen Junge, a QA tester and union leader who was unjustly terminated.

i worked closely with allen when we first started trying to unionize at abk, he's to credit with so much of why that union was able to happen. you've got my support, allen!

I and many others organized directly alongside Allen at Activision. Not only is he a dedicated employee, but he is also passionate about making sure his coworkers are treated fairly and with respect. Firing him is a blatantly and unashamedly retaliatory move.

Calling me a "diversity hire"

All because I said layoffs are bad, actually.

In the last 24 hours on twitter:

Adding me to lists with ableist slurs
Death threats
Being told to unalive myself
People making fun of my appearance
Trans slurs
Purposeful misgenderings (he/him;it/its)
People making fun of my poetry and writing work
People making fun of my etsy shop

My eloquent rage
Is a bird
That wonders why
You care more
About caging it
Than letting it fly.

My eloquent rage
Pulls back the curtain
On your Oz.
My eloquent rage
Refuses to not pay attention
To the man behind the curtain
Like you refuse to pay attention
To the promises
Your honeyed words have made
But cannot keep.

Lower your voice."
"You are too loud."
"You are interrupting."
"You are in the way."
Why do you try
To giftwrap my protest
And secure it
With a neat bow?

My eloquent rage
Cannot be confined
To your box.
My eloquent rage
Sees tomorrow
for what it promises
And today
for what it should already be.

inhales
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO
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i was informed my WFH accommodation, which i've been discussing with the ABK Accomodations Team since February, was denied shortly before receiving this email, by the way.