WASHINGTON : Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc enforced a social media policy that conflicted with workers’ rights and illegally threatened staff in the policy's enforcement, a U.S. government agency said on Monday.
The NLRB had been looking into allegations brought to the agency last September by labor union Communications Workers of America. The union has increasingly focused in recent years on organizing non-union workers in the tech and video game industries."These allegations are false. Employees may and do talk freely about these workplace issues without retaliation, and our social media policy expressly incorporates employees' NLRA rights," a company spokesperson said.