'Microsoft’s binding commitments will give employees a seat at the table and ensure that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard benefits the company's workers'.
The CWA's letter says it wasn't always gung-ho about the acquisition. In fact, when it was first announced, the union had"concerns about the potential for increased employer power over workers that could worsen labor monopsony" , but a subsequent"dialogue with Microsoft" allowed both sides to reachthat ensured"the workers of Activision Blizzard have a clear path to collective bargaining if the merger is completed".
The CWA contrasts the ease of that process against the difficulties it's faced unionising workers at Activision in its current form.
Its argument to the EU is much the same as its one to the FTC: Microsoft owning Activision will be good for workers and thus good for the labour market, which isn't a market that gets discussed a lot when regulators look at deals like this one. Indeed, most of the conversation around the Activision deal by national regulators has centred around its impact on consumers, not workers.
I don't know how much stock the EU will put in the testimony of an American labour union—its job, after all, is to care about the European market, not America's—but it's interesting to see the rather bizarre constellation of alliances that Microsoft's acquisition has bred.
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