{"id":209108,"date":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209108"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","slug":"blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209108","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard QA Employees in NY and Texas Ratify First Union Contract With Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment quality assurance employees in Albany, New York and Austin, Texas have ratified their first union contract with Microsoft, according to Aftermath. About 70 employees at the two studios have been negotiating with Microsoft Since May 2023.\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to stick together,&#8221; Blizzard Austin senior quality analyst Matthew Gant told Aftermath in an interview&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/article\/466929\/blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment quality assurance employees in Albany, New York and Austin, Texas have ratified their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209108-blizzard-qa-employees-in-ny-and-texas-ratify-first-union-contract-with-microsoft-590x360.jpg",590,360,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}