If the people in positions of power refuse to protect us, we must protect each other. We must look out for one another, and that's exactly what we did and are doing.
Workers hold the power, not executives. We are the ones who make the company and the games what they are.

We could have worked together with executives to make ABK the best company it could be, but instead they met us with aggression, intimidation, and a refusal to listen or be empathetic to the struggles of their employees.

This is only a small look into the harmful actions of executives during the lawsuits and union organizing. I am sure my fellow organizers have many, many other stories of the way executives downplayed serious situations or caused harm themselves

And who could forget the Cosby Suite? A hotel room where executives would lure women and take advantage of them sexually.

Bobby, who had in the past made death threats to his assistant. Who downplayed the severity of the harassment and abuse at every chance he had to speak on the issues

Remembering Bobby Kotick, who made Francis Townsend send a scathing email calling the lawsuit "truly meritless and irresponsible”. We later learned that Bobby himself wrote the letter and made Fran take the fall for his despicable words.

Remembering how Jen Oneal, the first female Co-President of Blizzard, resigned because she was being paid less than her male counterpart, Mike Ybarra, and felt "tokenized, marginalized, and discriminated against."

Remembering Mike Ybarra, who said in an All Hands meeting that if "workers believe that executives make more than them, they're living in a myth."

Remembering how every single employee got pulled into a slack channel titled "ABK Facts" whose sole purpose was to dispense anti-union talking points to the entire company. Modern day captive audience meeting.

Remembering how organizers had a meeting with Daniel Alegre (then COO of ABK) prior to a walkout. We came prepared with an agenda and talking points. Dude interrupted and stalled at every opportunity.

Most of the time we were talked over or ignored completely. ABK leadership had multiple chances to work with us to create a better workplace prior to unionization. They chose to intimidate and ignore instead

At every turn we were met with an unwillingness to create concrete and actionable goals to improve the workplace. What we got instead was (at best) empty promises to try and placate us or (at worst) the executives themselves utilizing their influence to intimidate.

Calling me a "diversity hire"

All because I said layoffs are bad, actually.