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Quality assurance workers at the video production company ZeniMax studios agreed to form a labour union.

"It's pretty momentous," said CWA spokesperson. "Microsoft is an outlier in the way tech companies have been behaving."

A group of video game testers has formed Microsoft’s first labor union in the U.S. It will also be the largest union in the video game industry.

ZeniMax Workers United/CWA has become the first studio at tech behemoth Microsoft 'to secure union representation,' the Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced.

Senior game tester Wayne Dayberry said Microsoft's neutrality promise gave workers confidence that there wouldn’t be any “retaliation or union-busting, which there has been none of.”

A supermajority of the 300 QA testers that work at ZeniMax Media have voted to form a union, a landmark vote that is creating the first union within

A supermajority of quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios have indicated that they wish to join ZeniMax Workers United/CWA either by signing a union authorization card or voting via an online portal. In accordance with its stated labor principles, Microsoft has recognized the union.

Staff at ZeniMax Studios, the owner of Bethesda Softworks, id Software and more, have voted to form Microsoft's first labour union in the United States, with agreement from the tech giant.

Hundreds of quality assurance workers and game developers at ZeniMax studios voted to form a union, which Microsoft, the company’s owner, has voluntarily recognized.

REDMOND (dpa-AFX) - Hundreds of game developers at Microsoft-owned (MSFT) ZeniMax Studios have voted to unionize, thus forming the first union that has been recognized by the software maker.The