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Bethesda Game Studios Unionizes — July 19, 2024

Bethesda Game Studios in Austin, Dallas, and Rockville have formed a union with the Communication Workers of America. The newly-formed union has been described as a "wall-to-wall" union, comprising artists, designers, engineers, and programmers. The formation of the One BGS USA union follows previous union formations by the Montreal BGS Studio and ZeniMax Workers United.

This comes during a period of continued mass industry layoffs for the last few years. These layoffs have also affected Bethesda Game Studios, and job security was one of the stated goals behind the formation of the union. Other objectives include "compensation transparency, and flexibility to continue creating the games we love".

You can see the initial announcement of this on X (formerly Twitter). Microsoft has officially recognized the union.