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A subsidiary of Block Communications, Inc., which owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is buying the Pittsburgh City Paper from the publisher of the Butler Eagle. The Butler Eagle’s publisher, Eagle Media, acquired the alternative weekly paper in March 2016 from Steel City Media. All employees of the City Paper will be

McCarthy fails in marathon votes for speaker, House adjourns

A group of 300+ ZeniMax Media employees passed a vote to become the first gaming union inside Microsoft and the largest in the United States.

The results are in: SEACC staff has unionized and awaits recognition by leadership.

The outcome, involving about 300 employees, is one of organized labor’s biggest victories at a major U.S. tech company.

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

Microsoft has formally recognized ZeniMax Workers United/CWA, instantly making this the largest union in the video game industry and the first union at Microsoft overall..

It was announced last month that 300 quality assurance employees at Microsoft owned ZeniMax Media were looking to hold [...]

At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize, marking the largest U.S. gaming union.