Activision Blizzard Employee Walkout Protest on Wednesday, July 28th

[Starym 3,800]

 

Many Activision Blizzard employees have decided to stage a walkout protest in response to the statements made by the company's legal counsel and the latter internal statement by Frances Townsend. The walkout is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday July 28th, and follows an open letter responding to the above statements, which has now been signed by over 2500 employees, and aims to get Activision Blizzard executives to work with the staff on improving working conditions:

There were also details of the walkout itself sent to Wowhead:

Walkout Details The walkout will take place on Wednesday, July 28th. From 10 AM-2 PM, we’ll meet in front of the main gate of the Blizzard Campus. We will not enter the Blizzard Campus due to the current COVID health and security measures. Parking should be restricted to the open parking lot in the building 5 and 6 area (Laguna Canyon Road) as there is no gate to access it. Employees unable to meet in person may lend their voice to the walkout by stopping work and by sharing their participation on social media with the #ActiBlizzWalkout hashtag. If you belong to a different studio, please feel free to customize the hashtag: #(YourStudio)Walkout.

Many Blizzard employees have since tweeted that they will be attending, and those that can't are encouraged to use #ActiBlizzWalkout  .

Tomorrow I will be standing with my friends and colleagues in order to make our voices heard and demand real change. Together we are far stronger than alone. #ActiBlizzWalkout pic.twitter.com/TrsU7ZwDit

— Zorbrix (@Zorbrix) July 27, 2021

#ActiBlizzWalkout I will be participating in this tomorrow. I hope many other Blizz employees will be joining me. Change requires action.

— Christie Golden (@ChristieGolden) July 27, 2021

#ActiBlizzWalkout ? pic.twitter.com/DOcVodfs0D

— Terran Gregory ? (@TerranGregory) July 27, 2021

Mini Twitter hiatus did me well. Feeling invigorated and ready to keep fighting for a better Blizzard ?#ActiBlizzWalkout pic.twitter.com/e2HzitTrzh

— Olivia Burkhart ? (@LivBurk) July 27, 2021

It’s time for some change. The response and followed silence from leadership has been disrespectful and disappointing.

I’m proud of my coworkers here. ?#ActiBlizzWalkout https://t.co/1c5gE2mNKC

— Adam Fletcher (@PezRadar) July 27, 2021

There are also charities you can support to show solidarity with the protest:

If you're able and looking for other ways to contribute, consider donating to one of the following charities in honor of #ActiBlizzWalkout:@BlackGirlsCode@WithoutViolence @GirlsWhoCode @RAINN @wia_animation @GETWIGI

— Nikki 'Gazelle' Crenshaw ? (@Gaiazelle) July 27, 2021

[Nym85 72]

If the employees want to really force action and claim some agency there is a simple way to do it that will make things fairly clear to corporate. Sign a petition to form a union.

[KrimzinOG 61]

If they walk out, they shouldn't have a job to come back to. 

Edited July 27, 2021 by Krimzin

[Nym85 72]

2 minutes ago, Krimzin said:

If they walk out, they shouldn't have a job to come back to. 

No right to protest where you live?

[Devylknyght 83]

I have to say that as much as I hate the company's direction the last few years, and the allegations that have come out, I hate this a million times more. They are essentially using the situation to move their woke football even further down the field. This goose is cooked.

Edited July 27, 2021 by Devylknyght
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[TGZero 1]

16 minutes ago, Nym85 said:

No right to protest where you live?

He's probably worried it might disrupt his WoW game time.

[KrimzinOG 61]

6 hours ago, Nym85 said:

No right to protest where you live?

Protest is great. What if everyone decided to just walk off the job because they were pissed about something. There is a time and place for everything. Walking off a job is the equivalent of a child throwing a temper tantrum.

 

Edited July 28, 2021 by Krimzin

[KrimzinOG 61]

6 hours ago, TGZero said:

He's probably worried it might disrupt his WoW game time.

Could give 2 shits one way or another. WoW is a game, period. Funny though thats the first thing you go to, seems you might be more worried about it than I am.

 

[KrimzinOG 61]

6 hours ago, Devylknyght said:

I have to say that as much as I hate the company's direction the last few years, and the allegations that have come out, I hate this a million times more. They are essentially using the situation to move their woke football even further down the field. This goose is cooked.

Spot on. Funny though the new Slogan for profession sports.. Get Woke, Go Broke.. LOL Lowest Olympic Viewership in history. People are sick of the Woke Liberal BS. 

[MeOnIV 23]

Well, guess Blizzard employees take after their own fans. Everything must be dialed up to 11, every time.

[Migeru71 15]

8 hours ago, Nym85 said:

No right to protest where you live?

This doesn't make a lick of sense... You have a right to protest your employer on your own time. As an employee you can be fired for not showing up to work. You should try logic. It's really cool.

[Migeru71 15]

51 minutes ago, MeOnIV said:

Well, guess Blizzard employees take after their own fans. Everything must be dialed up to 11, every time.

Can't pass up an opportunity to signal their virtues. Changing the world, one like on social media at a time.

[Nym85 72]

31 minutes ago, Migeru71 said:

This doesn't make a lick of sense... You have a right to protest your employer on your own time. As an employee you can be fired for not showing up to work. You should try logic. It's really cool.

Oh . . . yeah in many developed countries employees have a right to call a strike and unless a court decides they are abusing their right to strike (which happens rarely and only for sectors that serve the public interest) then the strike is upheld.

[Steveson 193]

My only issue with this walkout is that they haven't proven to be actually effective in long term. The only legit way to make company executives actually care is by hurting the most important thing they have - their income.
One day of not working is negligible for them. If all that staff just quits leaving noone else to work and make money for the execs - that's different story.

[Nym85 72]

8 hours ago, Steveson said:

My only issue with this walkout is that they haven't proven to be actually effective in long term. The only legit way to make company executives actually care is by hurting the most important thing they have - their income.
One day of not working is negligible for them. If all that staff just quits leaving noone else to work and make money for the execs - that's different story.

The thing is, these kinds of events usually do have a short term effect on stock values.