Members of the ZeniMax Workers United union have "overwhelmingly voted" to strike against its parent company, Microsoft. 

Per a press release from the Communications Workers of America, over 94 per cent of the bargaining unit voted to authorise its leadership to call for a strike. This comes two years into its contract negotiations with Microsoft. 

“We’re not afraid to use our union power to ensure that we can keep making great games,” said Skylar Hinnant, a member of ZeniMax Workers United and a senior QA tester. 

“All of us want to be working. We hope that Microsoft will allow us to do so with dignity and fairness to all by securing a first contract with our union.”

Zachary Armstron, another senior QA tester and ZeniMax Workers United member, added: “Underpayment and costly RTO initiatives have caused many of us to put our lives on pause because our income does not match even the rising cost of living in the cities where ZeniMax insists we live and work to maintain employment. None of us wishes it had come to this, but if Microsoft and ZeniMax continue to demonstrate at the bargaining table that they’re unwilling to pay us fair wages for the value our labor provides to our games, we’ll be showing them just how valuable our labor is.”

The ZeniMax Workers United union was formed in January 2023.