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NLRB says Activision Blizzard illegally surveilled employees during a walkout
Activision Blizzard is facing yet another complaint by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The labor agency has “found merit with several elements of the unfair labor practice charges filed by the Communications Workers of America (CWA)” on behalf of the company’s workers, the union has told Engadget. This particular case pertains to the CWA’s accusations that the game developer illegally surveilled workers when they walked out in July last year to protest the lack of gender equality in the company, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as well as Activision Blizzard’s alleged union-busting practices.
The NLRB found after an investigation that the company broke labor laws by using managers and security staff to monitor workers during the walkout. In addition, the labor board found merit in the CWA’s accusation that the developer threatened to cut off workers’ access to an internal chatroom where they discussed their pay, hours and overall working conditions. According to IGN, though, NLRB has dismissed one charge regarding the company cutting off people’s chat access to an all-hands meeting. The publication says Activision Blizzard‘s chief administrative officer Brian Bulatao has informed workers that chat was shut down for future all-hands because that particular meeting turned toxic. Attendees used it as a chance to “disparage the work of the Diablo Immoral team and others,” he explained.
An NLRB spokesperson told Reuters that it will move forward and prosecute Blizzard if the company doesn’t settle.
The company’s labor practices were thrust into the spotlight after California filed a lawsuit against it in 2021 for fostering a “frat boy” workplace. After a two-year investigation, the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing had determined that the developer discriminated against female employees. It’s one labor issue after another for Activision Blizzard after that, mostly related to workers’ organizing efforts. To note, the company is also facing another NLRB complaint, accusing it of violating labor laws by implementing an overbroad social media policy that prevented workers from talking about their working conditions and threatening employees who were exercising their right to join a union. Activision Blizzard told Engadget that those allegations were “false.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/nlrb-says-activision-blizzard-illegally-surveilled-employees-during-a-walkout-094211193.html?src=rss
Triple-killer asylum seeker illegally got £40k of legal aid after stabbing Royal Marine
A TRIPLE-KILLER asylum seeker who posed as a schoolboy to enter the UK illegally received nearly £40,000 of taxpayers’ cash in legal aid after stabbing an aspiring Royal Marine to death.
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, fatally knifed Thomas Roberts with a 10cm blade outside a Subway takeaway in Bournemouth, Dorset on March 12 last year.
Triple-killer asylum seeker Abdulrahimzai received nearly £40,000 of taxpayers’ cash in legal aid[/caption]
The asylum seeker was convicted of murdering the 21-year-old at Salisbury Crown Court in Wiltshire on January 23.
And on January 25, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 29 years, at the same court.
FOI data showes he got £39,776 in legal aid to protest his innocence at stabbing Thomas to death – despite being here illegally.
The cash was for a barrister at trial and solicitor at previous police interviews.
A source: “He was laughing in the face of justice.
“He killed two people before coming to Britain illegally, then kills another and gets a huge sum of taxpayers cash to defend himself.”
Abdulrahimzai was born in Afghanistan in 2001.
He started moving illegally through international borders at the age of 14 in 2015.
He initially entered Pakistan and Iran before moving between Norway, Italy and Serbia.
In 2018, the migrant used a Kalashnikov rifle to shoot dead two other Afghan men outside a refugee area near a petrol station.
He was handed a 20-year sentence in his absence for two counts of murder in Serbia.
A year later Abdulrahimzai made a claim for asylum in Norway but it was rejected.
In December 2019, he entered the UK illegally where he claimed asylum, pretending to be an unaccompanied 14-year-old whose parents had been killed by the Taliban.
He was put into foster care and moved to Poole in Dorset.
On March 12 last year, he got into a row with James Medway – a friend of Thomas Roberts – over an e-scooter.
Royal Marine hopeful Tom intervened in the argument and was stabbed in the heart and stomach by Abdulrahimzai.
When the asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of murder, he claimed to to be 16-years-old, but dental examination revealed he was 21.
He admitted manslaughter, but denied murder.
Man Who Ran a Website that Illegally Streamed Major League Sports Gets 3 Years Behind Bars
A Minnesota man was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for illegally streaming major league sports content to outside third parties. Joshua Streit, also known as Joshua Brody, was arrested in 2021 after an investigation found he had hacked into a Major League Baseball system and attempted to extort…